05/14/08
The fruit of the Cacao tree grow directly from the trunk. They look like small melons, and the pulp inside contains 20 to 50 seeds or beans. It takes about 400 beans to make a pound of chocolate.
"Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Phillip Sousa copyright
is registered in 1897.
05/13/08
The earliest cocoa plantations were established in 600 AD, in the Yucatan, by the Mayans.
VELCRO trademark registered 1958
05/12/08
The daughter of confectioner Leo Hirschfield is commemorated in the name of the sweet he invented: Although his daughter's real name was Clara, she went by the nickname Tootsie, and in her honor, her doting father named his chewy chocolate logs Tootsie Rolls.
