Eat your chocolate – with your vegetables?
Rosa According to Chow’s Food Media, chocolate/vegetable flavor combinations are the next big thing in chocolate tasting adventures.
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British Boiled Sweets – Part 2
Today we continue Monday’s review of British hard candies with a lemon sherbet drop and the rosy apple. Lemon Sherbet Drop My lemon sherbet drop wasn’t exactly a hard candy…
Is chocolate good for you?
As I’ve written before, I don’t buy into the “chocolate is good for you because it has flavonoids/antioxidants” hype. I eat chocolate because it tastes good and makes me happy,…
British Boiled Sweets – Part I
British boiled sweets have interested me since I first read a Harry Potter book. Clearly the Fizzing Whizbees and acid pops imagined by J.K. Rowling had some root in muggle…
Starbucks Chai Truffle [Review]
Starbucks came out with its own line of chocolates (made by Hershey’s) to be sold in grocery stores a year or so ago. They’d actually been selling chocolates in their…
Vosges – new bars and 10% off
Via Chocolate Blog, Vosges, a wonderful if pricey chocolatier that I’ve reviewed several times in the past, has new bars and chocolates out. I’ve actually seen the organic bars at…
Dubble
I think the Dubble bar I bought at an OxFam (secondhand charity shop) in Cambridge was the cheapest fair trade chocolate I’ve ever come across. At 49 pence (about $1.00…
Treacle Toffee Recipe
From the Washington Post, an ode to treacle and treacle toffee. I’ve been saving my last bar of Walker’s for a special occasion, but if I can find treacle somewhere…
Meiji Mini Candies
I got a set of five Meiji Mini Candies from my friend Michael, who is originally from Japan. I’m still looking for a place where I can buy them in…
Dagoba Superfruit and Mon Cheri
Dagoba was my introduction to upscale chocolate. It was a big part of my first chocolate tasting party, when I first really tasted chocolate, which is why I have reviewed…
Shameless plug and Times Dining piece on cacao growers.
Yesterday, I started a new blog for my final project in a course I’m taking this semester (The Psychology, Politics, and Biology of Food). I’m taking a week off from…
Rowntree’s Jelly Tots
I give Rowntree’s Jelly Tots major props for cute packaging with built-in portion control. I only ever saw them in the UK in tiny bags, each including 146 calories, according…