We held our chocolate tasting last night. It was an absolute delight! We became better acquainted with different chocolatiers and really tried to unpack which bars had notes of honey, currant, or even verbena. We also jumped right into the standards for fine chocolate: aroma, look/snap, taste, melt, length/lingering aftertaste. By the end of the [...]
Entries from March 2008
March 28, 2008
What the Flavonoid?
So we’ve all heard it: Dark chocolate has health benefits. Now there’s a silver lining to your, well, silver lining. A recent study indicates that daily dark-chocolate intake can help you fight off certain diseases because your blood is full of flavonoids. Let’s hear it in Dr. Mary Engler’s words from a WebMD article:
“This is [...]
March 28, 2008
Cacao Coast to Coast
My girl, Robin, brings up a very good point in her comment to my last entry. Seattle is a great place for artisan chocolate. This very morning I read about a Seattle chocolate factory called Theo. It gives daily tours. Awesome!! Watch this video. Are you sold? I am! I’ve not yet sampled their goodies, but I [...]
March 27, 2008
Charmed by Chocolate
This Sunday I am hosting a small chocolate bar tasting at my place, and last night I purchased the chocolate for the party from Biagio (my favorite chocolate shop near Adams Morgan). I brought a list of the top ten bars from seventypercent.com, but I also asked the shop guys what their favorites were. I [...]
March 26, 2008
Free Chocolate
Today, I flew by the free food area on the seventh floor of my office. Urrrr! I screeched to a halt, though. What was an entire bar of wrapped chocolate doing in the “Take Me, I’m Free” discard pile? We have a countertop—it’s actually the top surface of a filing cabinet near the kitchenette—which is [...]
