Many cultures believe that if a man and a woman eat from the same beetroot, they will fall in love, and in Greek and Roman mythology, Aphrodite (Venus) attributed her romantic power to the beet. This is most likely why beets are portrayed in erotic paintings in ancient Pompeii. It is also believed that the world’s first chocolate cake was baked around the late 1800s after Bostonian Dr James Baker discovered that one could grind cocoa using a water-powered mill. Since then, chocolate cake has rightfully become its own category of cake, with many different styles of chocolate cakes baked and con…