My wonderful friend, Melanie, was kind enough to write a review of the Divine Dark Chocolate 70%. This woman is a rock star on many levels. She is a mother of one, lives in a small mountain town (as she lovingly calls it), and is a graduate student of soils. We go way back [...]
Entries from May 2008
May 20, 2008
Byrne & Carlson Part Deux
The folks at Byrne & Carlson were extremely helpful when I ordered these treasures over the phone. Also, who doesn’t enjoy receiving chocolate on ice by mail at the office? The bars and these beautiful Chipitos shot in my favorite bowl above arrived in perfect condition.
The Mendiant bar was wonderful. When I ordered this, I [...]
May 16, 2008
Chocolate Is Gold
It’s been a busy week…and it continues! Short and sweet, here are the details about Cadbury’s latest. No, Cadbury is not exactly the dark chocolate we adore so, but I like this article because it discusses next steps for larger chocolate companies as they try to predict where this “booming $80 million dark chocolate market–which [...]
May 13, 2008
Mother’s Day Milk Chocolate and Apricot
My mom has not yet converted to the land of dark chocolate. She does like milk chocolate, though, and apricots. So I’m hoping she’ll like these ingredients combined in the Crave bar that I mailed to her for Mother’s Day. With it, I also sent my dad my current fav, Cluizel’s Maralumi. Hopefully my mom [...]
May 9, 2008
Patric v. Patric
I had a lucky Saturday last weekend. Until then, my efforts to go to Biagio were thwarted several times, one obstacle being that I forgot my wallet! Thank goodness I remembered this before making it to the shop and picking out all the new and old fav bars I was looking forward to sampling and [...]
May 8, 2008
Bonnat Chuao
Finally, the Chuao from Bonnat. Several months ago, I sampled the bar voted number one for the last two years–Amedei’s Chuao. As noted on Amedei’s site, this chocolate is unique because of its origin. Chuao is a remote village plantation in Venezuela. Beyond being unique, there is a Chuao mystery; while Amedei claims exclusive rights [...]
May 6, 2008
Chocolate May Reduce Pregnancy Complication Risk
Robert and I really enjoyed sampling the bars we purchased this weekend at Biagio. I am super busy right now, though, and will have to post photos and reviews later today/this week. For now, I recommend this article. Happy beautiful day!
May 2, 2008
Green & Black’s: How to Host a Tasting
Green & Black’s has a wonderful web page about how to host a chocolate tasting. It goes into more detail than I’ve read other sites go into–such as pinching your nose to truly experience specific aspects of the chocolate–so I thought it would be helpful for other readers. I really had fun with the first [...]
