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Chocolate Bliss: Sensuous Recipes, Spa Treatments, and Other Divine Indulgences

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If you feel like exploring indulgence and flirting with danger and sin--without taking too many risks--chocolate is the thing for you. This book tells you how to get the most out of it. It's also beautifully produced and makes a great gift. This book made my Christmas--

It's wonderful to see chocolate treated as comprehensively as Susie Norris treats it here--as a time-honored, cross-cultural food staple that is also a special and complicated pleasure for us aficionados, and--surprise!--good for us in many ways. This is a beautiful book that offers devotees even more opportunities to work chocolate into their lives. Chocolate as beauty product? Who knew! Whether you're someone who indulges regularly or suffers from fear-of-chocolate and refrains, Chocolate Bliss will give you the information you need to feel good about your habit, or to cultivate it less guiltily!

This book advertises itself as a book of recipes, but it contains very few for its page count. I bought this book for the spa treatment section, only to discover only 4 recipes. I do plan on trying the recipes out, but I'm not sure I would have bought the book if I had known how little help it was going to be.

Don't you sometimes love chocolate so much you could practically soak in it? Well enter Chocolate Bliss: Sensuous recipes, Spa Treatments, and other Divine Indulgences. This sweet little book not only teaches you how to host a chocolate tasting while dishing out great recipes along the way, but how to make skin care products as well. Chocolate massage oil, anyone?

The book is small but mighty, packed with cool facts about "the third largest commodity on the global exchange" (behind sugar and coffee) and everything else you ever wanted to know about chocolate. For example, did you know that white chocolate is not really chocolate at all? It's made with cocoa butter, sugar, milk powder and a few flavorings, but because the butter comes from cocoa beans, it has that slight taste of chocolate. Go on, tell your friends. I guarantee* you'll be a hit at the next party. (*No, not really.)

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This book was a delight to read and full of information about chocolate, its magical (and healthful properties) and its bizarre history. Wonderful and fun. Great, easy to understand recipes for the wannabe chocolatier. Highly, highly recommended.