Chocolate ON A TREE
“There were plenty of the old Palestinian carob, Ceratonia siliqua, with its flat chestnut-coloured pods sometimes sold as St John’s Bread. Its sugary legumes have been fed to cattle from time immemorial to fatten them, and it was their husks that ‘the swine did eat’ which were welcomed by the Prodigal Son in the parable.”
— ‘Man of the Trees’, Richard St. Barbe Baker, when in California. From his book ‘I
