Cyber Chocolate: bronx botanical garden

Saturday, July 13, 2013

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Spent the day with a friend taking photos of water lilies and daylilies at the NY Botanical Garden today. So many pretty flowers.

Water Lilies

But we really went to see the giant head sculptures made out of fruits and vegetables. Here's one.

Sculpture of a Head by Philip Haas

~~~o0o~~~

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

A visit to the Bronx Botanical Garden was marred by rain, so my friend and I stayed indoors, strolling through the conservatory, where we got to see, among other wonderful plants, a cacao tree, complete with pod still attached. We got to taste a bit of 70 percent cacao chocolate and learned a bit about the health benefits of high content cacao chocolate. It's no surprise that white chocolate and milk chocolate have no health benefits compared to dark chocolate, and for dark chocolate, the higher the cacao content, the better. It was fun to see a pod still hanging on a cacao tree, as well as the inside of a pod. Unfortunately, I didn't have a good closeup lens on my camera, so the photo of the pod interior is a bit blurry.