Chocolate, Anyway You Like Trivia Quiz

Answer: Joanne Harris

"Chocolat" takes place between and Easter and tells of the dislike by the priest for the chocolatier, Vianne Rocher, who seems to have entranced the villagers, knowing just what they would prefer. She also has become a friend to all, and they tell her their trials and secrets. (It seems her mother was a witch and perhaps some powers have come through to her.) Vianne plans to have a Chocolate Festival on Easter Sunday which the priest, naturally, is adamant won't occur. To find out what happens and more, you must read the book. (It was also made into a movie, but I haven't seen it so I cannot say how much it may have varied from the book.)

Answer: Hershey, PA

The Hershey Company started out as Milton Hershey's Lancaster Caramel Company, making chocolate coverings for his caramel products with equipment he'd bought at the Exposition in Chicago in 1883. It wasn't too long before he realized that chocolate was where the future of the company lay.

In 1899, after much hard work coming up with a proper recipe, it was the first U.S. company to make milk chocolate. In addition to selling chocolate creations of all kinds, it also has "Hershey's Chocolate World", with shops and other fun attractions. If this has made you even more curious about Hershey's, its stock ticker symbol is HSY on the NYSE.

Answer: Chocolate Days, Popsicle Weeks

In "Chocolate Days, Popsicle Weeks", the protagonist, Fitzie, works his way through college at an ice cream and Popsicle plant, marries his high school sweetheart, takes an ROTC commission and spends some time in the Army, and then comes back, ready to break into the Big Apple big time.

He succeeds, and while doing so, due to the untimely death of his mother, realizes that what's most important is not his career, but having someone to love and to love him. He learns that if he and his wife work at it, they can have the success he's made of his career as well as a happy, fulfilling marriage.

It's too bad more young couples don't realize that early on.

Answer: Chocolate

"Chocolate" originally came out on her ninth studio album, "Body Language", in 2003. In 2004 the single became number one in the U.K. and elsewhere, making it her 27th UK top ten single.

Answer: Godiva

Godiva Chocolatier opened its first non-Belgian shop in Paris in 1958. It began exporting to the U.S. in 1966. In 1967 it was purchased by Campbell Soup Company. In 2007, Campbell's began talks with a Turkish group and in the spring of 2008 was acquired by that group.

Answer: Laura Esquivel

In "Like Water for Chocolate", Tita, the youngest of three daughters, is not allowed to marry so that she can take care of the mother. Unfortunately, she doesn't learn this until after she has fallen in love with Pedro. Her controlling mother offers her older sister to Pedro and they marry, with Pedro moving in with the family.

The only way Tita and Pedro can express their love is through Tita's cooking. This is a sad/happy/magical love story.

Answer: Chocolate Sundae

The title of the album, "Jazz Giants '58", was very appropriate. Playing along with Getz were Gerry Mulligan, Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, along with a few others of equal skill. "Chocolate Sundae" was the first track, followed by "When Your Lover Has Gone", which was so very good, too.

Answer: Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker was born Freda Josephine McDonald in 1906. By the time she was 14 she had dropped out of school and joined a traveling vaudeville troupe. In 1921 she married a man named Baker, her second husband. When they divorced, she kept Baker as her stage name.

In 1925 she went to Paris to perform and became an instant star. (She also got about 1,500 marriage proposals.) Her dance with a skirt made of 16 bananas was a favorite. In 1935 she returned to the US to star in the Ziegfield Follies. Because the white Americans, for the most part, were not ready to accept a black woman with her sophisticated image, she returned to Paris, married, and became a French citizen.

Answer: Italy

A brother and sister team, the Tessieris work less than an hour away from Florence, in Tuscany, Italy, in the business they founded in 1990. Alessio has been the buyer of the ingredients; Cecilia has been the one in charge of turning them into heaven.

Their dark, rather bitter, chocolate has been said to not only be the best in the world, but also one of the most expensive. At roughly $100 per pound (in 2011), it isn't inexpensive, that's for certain. What a lovely gift. Thank you SO much!

Answer: Bitter Chocolate: The Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet

"Bitter Chocolate: The Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet" is a condemnation of the chocolate industry's employment practices and abuses in the cocoa-raising countries. Even the companies who are known to have good employee relations in their home countries, such as Hershey's in the US and Cadbury's in the UK, seem to have ignored the employment conditions of the people who actually grow and pick the crop. Even if Ms. Off has shown the problem as somewhat worse than it actually is, there is still much that could be done for the betterment of the workers.