February 23. I’ll serve you Hot Chocolate today.
Drinking chocolate came to the Old World
from the New: Maya Xocoatl transformed,
Made sweet, thick, and noble for the refined
Palate of aristocracy. Chocolate!
Elixir of health, aphrodisiac (in the way of
every food and spice in turn), spiced with
cardamom, anise, petals of rose;
thick with milk and cream, touched with a rose-blossom marshmallow heart.
$3.75 for a demi. And the cookies are yet warm.