This is a lovely collection of stories about the dark, and also a bit lighter side of chocolate. I enjoyed learning new things about the history of chocolate, and about chocolate around the world. It is a really white people thing, it seems, except the collecting and the slaves.

I found the many recipes to be a bit oddly placed, and I would rather have put them all at the end, unless it really had a strong connection with the story.

This is a short book, and I am sure there are many more interesting stories about chocolate. I found the stories interesting, but I would have liked to read many more longer stories instead of a collection of this many really short bits. This is however a good handbook to turn to when you want to check some facts and stories about chocolate and its history.