TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As Valentine’s Day approaches, sales of chocolate soar worldwide, as the delicacy is a favored gift for the occasion. In the U.S. alone, consumers buy nearly 60 million pounds of Valentine’s chocolate each year. Yet, had it not been for a chance encounter in Honduras between Christopher Columbus and a group of natives, the world may not have known chocolate at all. In 1502, Columbus and his crew landed on Guanaja, one of Honduras’ idyllic Bay Islands in t
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