(Just a fun little writing project from my class to keep you warm on this wintry day.)
Winter can be a tough time for everyone. Days are shorter and often darker, bringing about seasonal doldrums. The annual battle against the elements is a struggle felt by everyone, whether working out in the blizzards, driving on the icy roads, or hauling a toboggan up the slippery hill. When the frosty grasp of winter works its way past toques and scarves and settles into the bones, the cold can seem impossible to escape.
But fear not! There is yet a beacon of light and warmth in the vast wintry plains, a small comfort, bringing hope to even the most frozen of winter sufferers. It is hot chocolate! That glorious miracle of a delicious hot beverage, come to restore feeling to the extremities and joy to the heart.
In the beginning days of hot chocolate, Mayans and Aztecs believed the drink to have medicinal properties, probably due to that wonderful hit of caffeine it provided. Aztec warriors would even drink it before battle. Even more recently in history, during the Revolutionary War, doctors would give wounded soldiers a drink of the healing elixir.
Whether hot chocolate possesses magical healing properties or not, it does have the ability to stave off the cold, and when you’re a Canadian in the dead of winter, sometimes that’s really all you need to get by.
Winter can be a tough time for everyone. Days are shorter and often darker, bringing about seasonal doldrums. The annual battle against the elements is a struggle felt by everyone, whether working out in the blizzards, driving on the icy roads, or hauling a toboggan up the slippery hill. When the frosty grasp of winter works its way past toques and scarves and settles into the bones, the cold can seem impossible to escape.
But fear not! There is yet a beacon of light and warmth in the vast wintry plains, a small comfort, bringing hope to even the most frozen of winter sufferers. It is hot chocolate! That glorious miracle of a delicious hot beverage, come to restore feeling to the extremities and joy to the heart.
In the beginning days of hot chocolate, Mayans and Aztecs believed the drink to have medicinal properties, probably due to that wonderful hit of caffeine it provided. Aztec warriors would even drink it before battle. Even more recently in history, during the Revolutionary War, doctors would give wounded soldiers a drink of the healing elixir.
Whether hot chocolate possesses magical healing properties or not, it does have the ability to stave off the cold, and when you’re a Canadian in the dead of winter, sometimes that’s really all you need to get by.
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