Divine and dangerous

Four weeks to go until the deadline for More Smut for Chocoholics, which I'm editing with the fantabulous Kev Blisse. All the details are at the Smutters website and the deadline is November 25th. Here's the sweet cover Kev's come up with too. It makes me hungry just looking at it. 

Need some inspiration? Here are some chocolate facts:

• Cocoa beans are the seeds inside the fleshy pods of the cocoa tree. So chocolate’s fruit. If you ignore what happens to it after those pods are harvested.
• The cocoa tree was regarded as sacred by the Aztecs and its Latin name Theobroma cacao means ‘food of the gods’.
• But it's West Africa which is now the centre of chocolate production, with 70% of the world's cocoa being grown there.
• Many of today's big confectionery companies were originally set up with Quaker backing, because chocolate was seen as a minor vice that could replace the much more sinful alcohol.
• It can be good for you – particularly dark chocolate – mostly because of the antioxidants it contains. Of course, it also contains large amounts of sugar and fat...
• Chocolate can be addictive because it contains several mood-enhancing chemicals.
• And that could explain why it’s been thought of as an aphrodisiac. In fact, the Aztecs banned women from consuming chocolate, such were its dangerous powers.

Thank you to everyone who's sent in their stories already. Mine's all done and dusted, but I can think of another half a dozen stories or so I could tease out of those facts... And if you're still hungry for more, check out the Divine Chocolate website's fact page.