Chocolate . . . - Its scientific name means “food of the gods.”- The Aztecs mixed it with blood and gave it to sacrificial victims to drink.- The entire town of Hershey， Pennsylvania was built by Milton Hershey to support his chocolate factory. Its streetlights are shaped like chocolate Kisses.- The first men to climb to the top of Mount Everest buried a chocolate bar there as an offering to the gods of the mountain.- Every twenty-four hours， the U.S. chocolate industry goes through eight million pounds of sugar.- Its special flavor is created by a combination of 600 to 1000 different chemical compounds ? Join science author HP Newquist as he explores chocolate’s fascinating history. Along the way you’ll meet colorful characters like the feathered-serpent god Quetzalcoatl， who gave chocolate trees to the Aztecs; Henri Nestlé， who invented milk chocolate while trying to save the lives of babies who couldn’t nurse; and the quarrelsome Mars family， who split into two warring factions， one selling Milky Way， Snickers， and 3 Musketeers bars， the other Mars Bars and M&M’s. From its origin as the sacred， bitter drink of South American rulers to the familiar candy bars so...