Life is sweeter on International Chocolate Day
Was pleasantly surprised by the dessert."It's OK, actually. It's not bad," he said.
Chocolate pickles may seem a little odd, but they are not the craziest chocolate treat on the market. Recipes for chocolate pizza, chocolate gravy and chocolate sushi are easily accessible on a variety of blog sites on the Internet.
Some countries even use chocolate in ways that don't include eating it. In 2007, a shopping mall in Vilnius, Lithuania, hired a team of food artists to create a room made entirely out of chocolate. It took 661 pounds of chocolate for the seven-person team to create the 17-square-meter room, which was decorated to look like a traditional Lithuanian sitting-room and included edible furniture, books, flowers and paintings. After two months, the room was taken apart, and bits of the room were offered to people to either keep or eat.
Whether you prefer hot chocolate to candy bars, chocolate-covered pickles to traditional Belgian pralines, looking at chocolate art to bathing in it, chocolate is a universally enjoyable treat. International Chocolate Day is less about consuming massive amounts of chocolate and more about celebrating the unique ways in which the delicacy is enjoyed around the world.