Point 1: Chocolate grows on trees. That means chocolate could be considered a fruit. Fruit’s good for us, so by association, so is chocolate.

Turn back the hands of time to 2000 BC, and you’ll find only the Gods and ancient Egyptian royalty enjoyed a gooey treat made from the mallow plant (Athaea officinalis) that grew wild in the mar…

St. Lucia, a tropical Caribbean Island of incredible beauty and diversity in landscape, people and customs, lies 1,300 miles southeast of Florida, in the Windward Islands, a part of the West Indies.

The phrase “A chicken in every pot” was a familiar phrase, supposedly uttered by Thomas Jefferson at the time of the American Revolution.

Chocolate begins as a bean that grows on a tropical tree. The bean is dried, ground, then blended with milk, sugar and cocoa butter.

I thought I did before reading a piece written by an actual chocolate taster. The job, according to her, is not as sweet as it sounds.

Considering that nuts are packed with nutrients, and nutritional experts say regularly including nuts in our daily diets helps promote heart health, it defies explanation why more of us don’t ea…

What can be better than a mug of piping hot chocolate on a cold winter’s day? Dressed up hot chocolate with a few easy modifications! Here are a few deliciously fresh and remarkably simple ways …

Mint is the broad label applied to a number of aromatic plants native to Europe, Asia and Australia. Today it is grown in most regions of the world where vegetation flourishes.

We enjoy growing it in our gardens and for lawn ornamentation because it’s so very easy to grow, requiring little more than a regular thorough watering.