World Cocoa Day

03 October 2018

The World Cocoa Day is organized by the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and by the Syndicat du Chocolat. This year, the World Cocoa Day will focus on the engagement of companies in the fight against deforestation.

What they think about chocolate
- The superiority of chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain
  
  Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826; third President of the USA)
- So noble a confession more than nectar & ambrosia, the true food of the gods
  
  Dr Etienne Bachot(1610-1687; French physician)
- Nowhere else has nature compressed such a store of the most valuable nutrient into such a small space as it has with the cocoa bean
  
  Alexander Von Humboldt (1769-1859; German naturalist & traveler)
- Look, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolates
  
  Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935; Portuguese poet)

World Cocoa Day

What they think about chocolate