Chocolate Activity Book A book of activities for your mind, body and soul. know ou y d i D Everyone seems to love chocolate – it’s a sweet treat with a sweet history going back more than 2,000 years Chocolate Facts • Theobroma Cacao is the tree that produces cocoa beans, and it means “food of the gods.” Each cacao tree produces approximately 2,500 beans. Because cacao trees are so delicate, farmers lose, on average, 30 percent of their crop each year. It takes 400 cocoa beans to make one pound of chocolate. • The average serving of milk chocolate has about the same amount of caffeine as a cup of decaf coffee. Studies have demonstrated that one of the major saturated fats in chocolate does not raise cholesterol like other hard fats. • Most cocoa –70 percent– hails from West Africa. There are an estimated 1.5 million cocoa farms in West Africa, the average size is 7 to 10 acres. • Most cocoa farms are not owned by the companies that make chocolate. Cote d’Ivoire is the single largest producer of cocoa, providing roughly 40 percent of the world’s supply. • Cacao leaves can move 90 degrees, from horizontal to vertical, to get sun and to protect younger leaves. Some cacao trees are more than 200 years old, but most give marketable cocoa beans for only the first 25 years. • Rudolph Lindt designed the first conching machine, its bed curved like a conch shell. • Worldwide, 40 million to 50 million people depend upon cocoa for their livelihood. A farmer must wait four to five years for a cacao tree to produce its first beans. The price of cocoa can fluctuate daily affecting farmers’ incomes. • Cacao beans were so valuable to early Mesoamericans that they were used as currency. An Indonesian cocoa farming community built a giant statue of hands holding a cocoa pod. • The Aztec emperor Montezuma drank 50 cups of cacao a day from a golden chalice, whilst Spanish royalty gave cakes of cacao in their dowries. “Cacao” is how you say “cocoa” in Spanish. • It takes two to four days to make a single-serving chocolate bar. Chocolate contains two doses of cocoa butter—the natural amount from the bean, plus an extra dollop to bump up creaminess. • Champagne and sparkling wines are too acidic to pair well with milk or dark chocolate. Try pairing a sweet bubbly with white chocolate and red wine with dark. In general, you want to match the sweetness level of the wine with the sweetness level of the chocolate. • Chocolate can make dogs and cats ill, meaning no tastings for your furry friend, and more for you! Chocolate Festivals Choco-Late Festival – Bruges, Belgium Belgian chocolate is some of the best known in the world for its quality and delicious taste, so it’s no wonder that one of the top worldwide chocolate festivals would be held there. Bruges hosts a large celebration of the sweet stuff where visitors can go to a chocolate museum, see chocolate sculptures and art works and even paint with chocolate. Eurochocolate – Umbria, Italy The world’s biggest chocolate festival is held in Umbria, Italy, since 1994. Hosting more than 500,000 chocolate lovers, this festival offers cookery classes, tasting sessions, chocolate sculpting and live entertainment as well as an annual awards ceremony for chocolatiers. Chocolate Fest – New Brunswick, Canada St Stephens in New Brunswick, Canada was given the official title of Canada’s Chocolate Town in the year 2000. The Chocolate Fest lasts for a week with activities like a chocolate themed brunch, a blindfold taste test, a choctail hour, and a treasure hunt take place. Chocolate Rush Festival – Melbourne, Australia The Chocolate Rush Festival in Melbourne which not only gives consumers the chance to taste their favourite treat, but to learn more about its production by attending seminars and education classes. Adults can enjoy Fairtrade chocolate and wine pairing sessions. Chocolate Show – Ne, USA The biggest American chocolate festival takes place in New York and represents a unique opportunity for people to see the different ways in which chocolate can be used. There is a chocolate fashion show as well as sampling of fine chocolates, demonstrations of cookery using chocolate and book signings. Chocolate Jokes There are two types of people in this world: People who love chocolate and liars. Q. What kind of sweet is never on time? A. ChocoLATE. Q. What is an astronaut’s favourite chocolate? A. A Mars bar. Q. What do you call an ant dipped in chocolate? A. Decad-ant. Q. What is a French cat’s favourite dessert? A. Chocolate mousse. Q. What’s the best part of Valentine’s Day? A. The day after when all the chocolate goes on sale.. Q. What do you call a lamb covered in chocolate? A. A chocolate baaa. Q. What do you get when you dip a kitten in chocolate? A. A Kitty Kat bar. Q. Why did the donut visit the dentist? A. He needed a chocolate filling. Q. What is a monkey’s favourite cookie? A. Chocolate chimp. Q. What do you call stolen cocoa? A. Hot chocolate. Q. What fruit loves chocolate? A. A cocoa-nut. Q. What is the opposite of Chocolate? A. Chocoearly. Chocolate There are two types of people in this world: People who love chocolate and liars. colouring in Q. What do you call an ant dipped in chocolate? A. Decad-ant. Q. What do you call a lamb covered in chocolate? A. A chocolate baaa. Q. What do you get when you dip a kitten in chocolate? A. A Kitty Kat bar. The Evolution of Cadbury Chocolate Can you guess the chocolate bar? Look at the close up images of chocolate bar wrappers and write your guess below it. Can you guess the chocolate bar? Look at the close up images of chocolate bar wrappers and write your guess below it. Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory The reactions of the actors and actresses in some scenes are spontaneous. For example, when the children first enter the Choco- late Room and see the candy gar- dens, their reactions are real, it was really their first view of that set. After reading the script, Gene Wilder said he would take the role of Willy Wonka under one condition: that he would be allowed to limp, then suddenly somersault in the scene when he first meets the chil- dren. When director Mel Stuart asked why, Wilder replied that having Wonka do this meant that "from that time on, no one will know if I'm lying or telling the truth.“ Stuart asked, "If I say no, you won't do the picture?" and Wilder said "I'm afraid that's the truth.“ Ernst Ziegler, who played Grandpa George, was nearly blind (from poison gas in World War I), so he was instructed to look for a red light to guide him when his character was meant to be looking in a certain direction. The Wonkatania was on a track in the chocolate river, but the actor playing the Oompa Loompa at the helm thought he was actually steering it. For the sake of believability, director Mel Stuart didn't tell him the truth. The chocolate river was made from 150,000 gallons of water, real chocolate and cream. Because of the cream it began to spoil and, by the end of filming, smelled terrible. According to Mel Stuart's book "Pure Imagination: The Making of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory", the reason everything in Willy's office is cut in half was because Stuart couldn't bear the thought of, after having gone through all the whimsical and creative rooms in the factory, ending the movie in an ordinary office. Everything was cut in half to make the room look more Wonka-esque. Peter Ostrum (Charlie Bucket) made no other films. He turned down a five-picture contract because he did not want to make acting his profession. He later became a veterinarian. In fact, out of all of the children in this movie, Julie Dawn Cole (Veruca Salt) is the only one still acting (as of 2013). Denise Nickerson's blueberry scene was shot in the middle of the day, leaving a time frame in between takes for lunch. She had to stay in her blueberry costume for that duration and had to be turned over several times to keep proper blood circulation. 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