It has happened to all of us... Dad doesn't know when to stop carving turkey. Mom insists we eat more of her sweet potato casserole. Grandma guilts us into a second helping of pie. And inevitably, we find ourselves passed out on the sofa after Thanksgiving dinner.
Most people blame the turkey for the sleepiness. It's popular wisdom to blame the tryptophan (pronounced trip-TO-fan), an essential amino acid found in turkey.
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There's nothing better on crisp, cool fall nights than to curl up with a steaming cup of hot chocolate. But in your local grocery store, the options are extreme – very cheap mixes like Nestlé and Swiss Miss share shelf space with high-end brands like Godiva.
I wanted to know if anyone in my office would really prefer the higher priced chocolate without knowing which was which. So we held a "double-blind" taste test here last winter. It was double-blind in that the person making the chocolates didn't interact with any participants, and the server didn't know which chocolate she was handing out each round.
The name means "food of the gods."
For thousands of years, humans have enjoyed chocolate in various forms... myself among them...