Mom’s church buddy ran the candy shop back home. One time I asked if I could see how they made their chocolate and I was FASCINATED to see how they made chocolate from cocoa beans. To make dark chocolate they soaked the beans in a solution that turned the beans darker. White chocolate came from the chocolate liquor from the fermentation. They required fresh milk for the milk chocolate. Pink Chocolate was made from white chocolate with maraschino cherry juice mixed in.

And then there was the nut roaster smell plus the chocolate smell which was so sinfully decadent. I must have put on five pounds just absorbing the odor that day!