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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 to both fashion and food. It is really known for its chocolate shops too! At last count, the city of Paris was noted as having…
Tweet My dear chocolate readers. It’s been 9 months since I have last written. Besides a huge project, I have no excuse except laziness. I apologize. Promise to make it up to you! For four of those months, I attended L’Art du Gateau at the French Pastry School in Chicago. I met lots of wonderful…
Tweet ‘Tis the season for gift giving, treating yourself and warming up by drinking lots of hot chocolate. Need some help finding the best dark chocolate bars and drinking chocolate available in the United States? Go no further! Here’s a list of Annmarie Kostyk’s Favorite Chocolate Things. Oprah has nothing on me! Just note these…
Tweet As you all know by now, Theobroma cacao (aka the chocolate tree, the cocoa tree) will only grow and bear flowers and fruit in a place called the cocoa belt which is located 20 degrees both north and south of the equator. One of the countries that falls within the cocoa belt and produces…
Tweet I found out about Snake & Butterfly Chocolate though a friend of mine who adore chocolate as much as I do. She found them at her local farmer’s market. You never know what you’ll find at a farmer’s market, that’s why should should visit as many as you can! Snake & Butterfly Chocolate has…
Tweet Not to long ago I told you all about Gail Ambrosius Chocolatier and their amazing truffles. Well, sometimes I can’t get enough of a good thing, especially when it is beyond good. I thought I’d give their Five-Bar Bundle a try. I am a huge chocolate bar fan. They were nice enough to add…
Tweet How to Make Your Own Chocolate Bars Making your own chocolate at home has obvious attractions – the smell of melted chocolate, the power over your creation, and not at last the left over chocolate in the forms and on the spoons that just begs to be licked off. But what others like just…
Tweet I recently had a question from someone that was having problems with a recipe for chocolate bark. She was putting it in the refrigerator to set and was having problems with “sweat” once she took it out. I thought we’d talk about chocolate bar packaging and how to store it today since there are…
Tweet The photo of the chocolate bars that I posted yesterday from the Swiss chocolate shop really excited me. Although not an exceptionally clear photo, it invited me not only into the shop, but made me want to lie down in that chocolate case with the chocolate bars similar to the scene in Chocolat. I…
Tweet I’ve been spending my entire weekend writing and missed a post yesterday. Sorry about that. I was lucky in that Valrhona must have known my plight and sent me something they thought would interest me. Which of course made me think of you. It’s about pairing chocolate and wine which, quite frankly, I know…
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