Chocolatology: Chocolate's Fantastical Lore, Bittersweet History, & Delicious (Vegan) Recipes (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781621062899)

Darin Wick is a bike repair teacher who majored in Technocultural Studies at UC Davis. He has learned more about chocolate than he ever expected to know. He has been documented as a chocolate lover as early as one year of age, but his first memory of eating chocolate involved a large chocolate rabbit. Angel York is a local activist and community organizer who studied history at UC Davis after years of working at restaurants in national parks (and other adventures). She has eaten more chocolate than she ever expected to eat. In her Junior year of high school she discovered that chocolate and carrots go well together. Her social group was unconvinced. She swore she'd write a cookbook someday just to include this information, but had no idea she meant it. Cat Callaway has drawn a great many things but until recently few of them had been chocolate. She once visited several cacao plantations in the chocolatey Mexican state of Tabasco, where she was able to eat the white pulp of the cacao fruit and smell the malodorousness of fermenting cacao beans at the chocolate mill. She is also a graduate student in Biology at San Francisco State University studying fungal systematics.