Chocolate: The Consuming Passion

This is a rather delightful little book that's good for a series of chuckles every now and then, and will doubtless cheer you up, unless you're a sour chocolate-hater with no sense of humour. It's also somewhat informative on the subject of chocolate. The illustrations and the text go well together.

I'm tempted to give it at least 4 stars on the basis of quality, but I give it only 3 because there isn't much of it, it doesn't take long to read, and I don't reread it often. I don't think it would stand up to frequent rereading, the humour would go rather stale. However, it's certainly worth rereading on an occasional basis.

I bought my copy in 1983, and I've probably read it more times than I'm aware of, because it takes so little time to read that I may not have bothered to note it in my diary.