Edward Everett: the chocolate connection

Earlier this week I blogged about Edward Everett, who is a salutary reminder that more and longer writing or talking doesn’t automatically make for more meaning or greater impact. That’s because he spoke for two hours in 1863, just before someone else spoke for two and a bit minutes. That someone else was Abraham Lincoln, delivering the Gettysburg Address.

It turns out there is a connection between Edward Everett and that favourite subject of mine – chocolate.

Edward Everett was born in Dorchester, USA. What else is the place known for? It is where Irish immigrant John Hannon started up the chocolate business which became the Baker Chocolate Company, now part of the Kraft empire.

(Thanks to Jim Cooke for emailing me about this link.)