Chocolate!
August 27, 2005


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Checking out the chocolate exhibit at the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco
In the background, a chocolate tree. Foot-long fruits carry lots of chocolate seeds inside.


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Accompanied by Sarah and Sandro, Audrey and I see how chocolate is prepared, traded, sold, and enjoyed through the centuries.


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The lobby also features a clever way to collect money - a money jar that people are quite eager to throw money into, since they put on quite a show going down...


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[swooosh]


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The chocolate seeds are easily turned into delicious chocolate; they are just simply roasted, cracked, ground, pressed, mixed with milk and sugar, mangled, churned, and tempered. Just like that!


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Chocolate today comes in many shapes, brands, and sizes.


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The Academy of Scienses also features an aquarium exhibit.


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We're watching the penguins being fed by a (dismembered?) woman.

Sandro, Sarah

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Their exhibit on Astrobiology features a piece of a real meteorite.


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Ending the evening with dinner over at their nearby apartment.
-Yummy grilled chicken with yoghurt, sticky rice - and real homemade strawberry icecream.