King-Sized No More
I’ve been battling a cold for a while and ran out of stored tasting notes. I won’t be able to write more reviews until I get my sense of taste…
Chow Chocolate-Maker Series
Chow recently had a couple of great profiles of American chocolate makers. Check out their pieces on Colin Gasko, who’s making chocolate from wild cacao, and Scott Winthrow of Nashville’s…
Choco Roll – Pudding
The last time I tried Choco Roll in their Taro flavor, it just didn’t work for me. Though my palate grew up eating lots of Chinese food, I couldn’t stand…
Candy Meets Brain Science!
Via Dan Ariely’s blog, a new study has found that “Relative visual saliency differences induce sizeable bias in consumer choice ”. Why am I featuring a marketing study on this…
Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Covered Powerberries
After I reviewed Brookside’s Dark Chocolate Goji with Raspberry, Joanne noted that Trader Joe’s had a candy called Powerberries that was similar. I saw a bag on my latest Trader…
Chocolate and Wine Pairings
It’s not too late to pick up a bottle of wine for tonight. The Kitchn has tips on how to pair wine with whatever chocolates that you got from/for your…
Politically Demonizing Sugar?
Via Jezebel, but all over the news lately (CNN, CBS), is a new Nature commentary piece that’s been making waves by calling for government regulation of sugar. The authors of…
M&Ms Superbowl Commercial
I’m writing this post at Superbowl halftime. Currently, this M&Ms commercial takes the cake as my favorite of the night. Yeah M&Ms naked parties!