David Wolfe - Naked Chocolate: The Astonishing Truth About the Worlds Greatest Food

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2005 by David Wolfe and Sharon Holdstock. All rights reserved. No portion of this book, except for brief review, may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwisewithout the written permission of the publisher. For information contact North Atlantic Books.

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eISBN: 978-1-58394-530-8

Cover art by Amy Gayheart

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Each lesson in this book contains facts, concepts, and ideas which build upon the chapter before it. Therefore, on the first time through, we urge the reader to avoid skipping the earlier chapters. The reading will surely prove most fruitful if you begin at the Table of Contents and read straight through.

Naked Chocolate is written in British English, not American English. Both authors prefer the British spellings.

Many of the products mentioned in this book are available from Longevity Warehouse in the USA and Canada (www.longevitywarehouse.com) and Rawcreation Ltd in the UK (www.detoxyourworld.com). Longevity Warehouse and Rawcreation Ltd are committed to providing the most incredible and unique health and beauty products available in the world today. All products are diligently researched and tested before they are chosen for distribution.

Due to the haphazard chaos magic research process that created this book, some references to studies and facts were lost. If you find information in this book that is unreferenced or unsubstantiated with a reference, we recommend that you do the book and Internet research to corroborate the information. If you find a reference that we neglected to credit, please e-mail it to us via Facebook at www.facebook.com/doxtor or www.facebook.com/DavidAvocadoWolfe so that we may include it in future editions of this book.

A Mayan ball player giving a cacao fruit to a deity

Amy Gayheart Thank you for the flyers, labels, smiles, great times and high vibes! A huge thank you from us both for your stunning cover design.

Anita Arze For all the chocolate-loving good times!

Camille Super Goji Girl Perrin Giglio You are a chocolate superhero.

The Coconut Brothers Ethan and Eli Schotz for bringing into our awareness the true meaning and importance of raw cacao beans.

Sky Dancer For all the best times ever and for supplying us with raw chocolate from Palenque during our European Tour in the summer of 2003.

Matt Bless you for helping me maintain focus when creating this book, while I was also growing our Evie and sometimes feeling quite sick of chocolate, along with everything else!

Toby Darling Your testing tastebuds were most welcomed.

Peppermint Pattie For helping me create some of the recipes when I couldnt tell you why because this book was still a secret then!

The Coconut Brothers Ethan and Eli you are the cutest chocolate givers in the whole world! Now look what you started!

Mum and Jennie (at www.detoxyourworld.com) Thank you for being part of my love-empire Im so glad youre growing with me! And thank you for being my family, along with my lovely Dad!

Forget love
Id rather fall in chocolate!

Anonymous

There is nothing in the world like chocolate. It is luxurious, sensuous, delightful, passionate, inspirational, sexual and exciting to all senses.

According to popular research, chocolate is the number one food craved by women. Chocolates unique chemistry, taste and sensory properties make it one of the most popular food substances in the United States and Western culture in general. Americans consume, on average, 11.7 pounds (5.3 kilograms) of chocolate per person annually.

Whatever mystery is behind it, there is no end in sight for the exploding chocolate renaissance. The world-wide consumption of chocolate is increasing at a rate of 3 to 4% each year! Switzerland leads the world in chocolate consumption at 19 pounds per person per year. The Norwegians and British are tied for second, with an average consumption of 17.5 pounds of chocolate annually. Behind them are the Belgians, Dutch, Germans, and Austrians, who eat more than 14 pounds each year. The annual intake of chocolate in Japan is only 3 pounds.

Western culture has fallen in love with this most amazing substance. Yet, for most of us, it has been a blind date all along. After all, what is chocolate? Where does it come from?

This book is about bringing the sacred spirit back into chocolate, the raw spirit from whence it originates, the pure energy of cacao, the food of the gods. All chocolate is made from cacao, the seed of the fruit of a jungle tree!

Throughout most of our lives it was a general mystery to us where chocolate came from. There always seemed to be a cloud around the whole process. Now it is time to dispel the ambiguity surrounding chocolate once and for all and lay naked before the world the true meaning of chocolate. That is our purpose and mission.

Sometime, when we were kids, probably at my Aunt Dee-Dees house in Moberly, Missouri, I first viewed the film Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. That was my first exposure to the deep, mystical magic of chocolate. Sometime shortly thereafter, my family drove to Hershey, Pennsylvania to experience the Hersheys Chocolate Theme Park. It was then I realised that chocolate had something more to offer than your average burger and fries.

A casual interest in chocolate throughout my life has blossomed into a passion and incredible fascination for the cacao tree and its prodigal product, the cacao bean. Cacao beans are the raw form of chocolate. They are the key ingredient of all chocolate. All chocolate is made from cacao beans.

For many years, whenever I would come across raw cacao beans in Hawaii, I would peel a few of them and throw them into a smoothie or coconut drink. I never experimented with them enough to realise what I was dealing with.