Today is...
Chocolate Covered Anything Day!

Chocoholics, rejoice! Today is your opportunity to top everything that you eat with chocolate. Indulge in chocolate covered waffles for breakfast, chocolate covered crepes for lunch, chocolate covered pretzels for a snack, and chocolate covered strawberries for dessert! You can also get creative and experiment with more unusual dishes like beef tenderloin smothered in a rosemary, chocolate, and wine sauce.
There are many different types of chocolate that you can use to top your food: sweetened, unsweetened, bittersweet, semisweet, milk chocolate, white chocolate, dark chocolate, cocoa, and more. Fun fact: Cacao beans, the main ingredient in chocolate, were so valuable in the ancient Mayan and Aztec civilizations that they were used as currency to pay for commodities and taxes!
Cover your food in chocolate today, and, in spirit of the holiday season, share some of your chocolate covered treats with your friends and family. Enjoy!

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Today is also Boston Tea Party

December is National Fruit Cake Month & National Egg Nog Month

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History for December 16th 1497 - Vasco da Gama travels around the Cape of Good Hope. 1653 - Oliver Cromwell is named lord protector of England, Scotland and Ireland. 1707 - Mount Fuji's last recorded volcanic eruption in Japan 1773 -  The Boston Tea Party: Disguised members of the Sons of Liberty dump crates of tea into Boston harbor to protest the Tea Act.   1916 -  Gregory Rasputin, a monk with considerable influence over the Russian court, is murdered by noblemen. ______________________________________________________ "A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus." -- Herbert Hoover