Infinite chocolate?
Rosa Via Neil, here’s a tricky puzzler with a chocolate bar theme. From Cheezburger.com: If you’re curious how this works, the solution can be found here.
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Mast Brothers Chocolate in Hipster Land
The NY Times recently ran what I thought was an unnecessarily snarky but pretty funny takedown of Williamsburg’s hipster culture. At one point, he visits the hipster chocolate haven that…
Serious Eats on Askinosie Chocolates
I recently reviewed and loved Askinosie’s single-origin dark chocolates. Serious Eats just reviewed one of their flavored bars, which makes me want to go out and buy their entire line.
Serious Eats covers Chicago caramels
Serious Eats recently ran a delectable slide show about caramels in Chicago. I’ll have to find time to hunt some of those down while I’m in town for Sweets and…
Sweets and Snacks 2013
Emma talked me into taking on Sweets and Snacks again this year. We’re Chicago bound in a few weeks! If you don’t know, Sweets and Snacks is the big annual…
Giant Peep
Okay, I know this is out of date since it’s so long after Easter, but it was too creative to not share. Apparently last Easter you could get a single…
Jelly Belly infographic
Apparently this past Monday was National Jelly Bean day (oops! How did I let that slip by?). To honor the occasion, Jelly Belly made a jelly bean infographic. It’s mostly…
Robyn Lee taste tests Pockys (and knockoffs)
Serious Eats’ Robyn Lee wrote up a verrrry thorough blind tasting of Pocky and its various chocolate-covered biscuit stick imitators. To give away her punchline, Pocky came out on top!…
Serious Eats with a Charles Chocolates tour
I was at a conference last week, so I didn’t have time to get a full review up today. Sorry guys!?Instead, check out the chocolate porn from Serious Eats’ tour…
Kit Kat Art
Via AdFreak, Australia celebrated its limited edition white chocolate Kit Kat by having an illustrator melt them down and paint them into posters. The effect was quite stunning, as you…
Stolen Nutella
Some German thieves made off with 5.5 metric tons of Nutella, worth ~$20,000. Slate had some suggestions for what they could do with it, including eating it all. I wonder…
NY Times interview with Shawn Askinosie
Tomorrow, I’m running a review of some Askinosie dark chocolates. Shawn Askinosie just did an interview with the NY Times. Before he got into the chocolate business, he was a…