Trivia: 05/13/12 Cuckou For Cocoa

TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE

QUOTE: "Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."
HINT: (1892-1983), English author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer.

RANDOM TIDBITS

A recent study indicates when men crave food, they tend to crave fat and salt. When women crave food, they tend to desire chocolate.
Aztec emperor Montezuma drank 50 golden goblets of hot chocolate every day. It was thick, dyed red and flavored with chili peppers.
Bittersweet chocolate is what is usually called for in baking. It contains more chocolate liquor (at least 35%) and less sugar than sweet chocolate. Semisweet chocolate contains 15% - 35% chocolate liquor.
Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho, which actually took 7 days to shoot.
Chocolate was introduced into the United States in 1765 when cocoa beans were brought from the West Indies to Dorchester, Massachusetts.
The melting point of cocoa butter is just below the human body temperature -- which is why it literally melts in your mouth.
QUOTE: "Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."
ANSWER: Rebecca West.