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By Eileen Reynolds

For chocolate lovers and Roald Dahl fans, some heartening news: Willy Wonka’s factory—or, at least, something that sounds very much like it—was a real place. Deborah Cadbury, descendent of real-life Willy Wonkas and author of the new book “Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World’s Greatest Chocolate Makers,” begins her history of the family business with this mouthwatering description of a trip to the Cadbury factory in the nineteen-sixties:

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