Our Favorite Sandra Boynton Quotes...

Thinking you can cut calories with a chocolate substitute? Ummmm, no.

As Sandra Boynton herself points out, "carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate because it has some similar nutrients (calcium, phosphorus), and because it can, when combined with vegetable fat and sugar, be made to approximate the color and consistency of chocolate. Of course, the same arguments can as persuasively be made in favor of dirt."

There's no one quite like Sandra Boynton -- children's author and chocolate lover. Fortunately, she finally found a way to meld her two loves when she wrote her book Chocolate: The Consuming Passion. As she puts it: "The book was largely motivated by the allure of having all my chocolate expenses be tax-deductible for a year."

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