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Chubby Chipmunk Hand-Dipped Chocolates Using Rare Fortunato No. 4 Chocolate

August 27, 2012
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Chubby Chipmunk Hand-Dipped Chocolates Using Rare Fortunato No. 4 Chocolate

Tweet Pure Nacional, a variety of cacao plant thought to be extinct, has been rediscovered in Peru. That’s sweet news for chocolate lovers worldwide, and especially sweet for South Dakota chocolate lovers. This one-of-a-kind chocolate will soon be available at Chubby Chipmunk Hand-Dipped Chocolates in Deadwood. In June, Chubby Chipmunk will begin selling chocolate truffles…

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Raw Chocolate Really? by Guest Blogger Lee McCoy of Chocolate Reviews and Chocolatiers.com

August 20, 2012
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Raw Chocolate Really? by Guest Blogger Lee McCoy of Chocolate Reviews and Chocolatiers.com

Tweet It’s not just in the chocolate industry that aficionados fight, tooth and nail, to promote the benefits or small batch, organic, artisan or ethical, locally-produced chocolate; there are large swathes of people in the ‘slow food’ movement that believe food should be made from…

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Chocolate: A Health Food? By MARTA FALCONI(Wall Street Journal)

July 18, 2012
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Chocolate: A Health Food? By MARTA FALCONI(Wall Street Journal)

Tweet Europe has moved a step closer to putting a health halo on dark chocolate. On Tuesday, the world’s largest chocolate manufacturer, Barry Callebaut AG, won the backing of the European Food Safety Authority for its claim that cocoa flavanols, or compounds that can also…

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Chocolate Divides a Nation by James O’Doherty (From Illawarra Mercury)

July 17, 2012
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Chocolate Divides a Nation by James O’Doherty (From Illawarra Mercury)

Tweet The chocolate dollar in Australia spans a great divide: on one side, a price war dominates at the supermarket checkout. On the other, a world of high-end, artisanal chocolate,…

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Chocolate Shops of Paris, France

July 15, 2012
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Chocolate Shops of Paris, France

Tweet With summer upon us people making their summer vacations plans, there’s always a lucky group who get to travel to the city of lights – Paris.  Paris is home…

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Hotel Chocolat 66% Sambirano Valley by Chocolate Reviews

July 11, 2012
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Hotel Chocolat 66% Sambirano Valley by Chocolate Reviews

Tweet If truth be told, after Venezuela, Madagascar is my favourite origin of cocoa. The traditionally bright, red fruit, Cornish ice cream flavours that seem to be present in most…

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