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    American. Chocolate. Week.

    American. Chocolate. Week.

    Yes, American Chocolate Week lasts seven days, March 17-23, 2019. But is it really about America? Or chocolate? It depends on your perspective. 1) 'American' at its etymological root would refer to whatever Amerigo Vespucci was snacking on in Florence circa 1492, which could not have been chocolate. Vespucci’s lifetime spans the period when Christopher Columbus voyaged for the Crown of Spain to what he believed was the Indies (Asia). There, he famously happened upon civilizat
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