Let them eat cake--chocolate cake

January 27, we have only now learned, is National Chocolate Cake Day, at least among our friends to the south. It is claimed that chocolate cake had its origins in Massachusetts in 1765, but we are taking this with a grain of creme de cacao. 

Possibly the most elegant variation on the basic chocolate cake is the deservedly famous sacher torte, created by the chef of an Austrian prince in the nineteenth century. Most appealing, with a chilled dessert wine.

A viewer has complained that while there may be a national salute to chocolate cake, there is none for the chocolate martini, the chocolate Coke, the fudgsicle, or chicken mole. 

And this just in from a heavenly source: "Where's the day for angel food?"