Receta Cooking Across America Presents, Utah.

Better start this off a disclaimer, “No Andes Candies or York Peppermint Patties were eaten, nor harmed in any way with the making of this recipe.”  That should make the politically correct anti-whatever groups happy; now to the good stuff…chocolate, mint brownies.  This trio happens to be one my very favorites, so making “Chocolate Lovers’ Favorite Mint Brownies” the Utah Cook Book (page 88) was no hardship at When looking chocolate’s history, the first cultures to come to mind are the Aztecs Mayans of Mesoamerica.  They made beverage known as xocolātl, a Nahuatl word meaning "bitter water".  The seeds of the cacao tree have an bitter taste; the process of fermentation (converting carbs…