CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN!!
Originally uploaded by lesliebyk.
So in a previous post, I mentioned Jean Phillippe Patisserie in Las Vegas as a great place to get hot chocolate (From a USA Today review, ring a bell?). That’s all well, and great… but what I didn’t mention was that [...]
chocolate + beets
Originally uploaded by antimega.
Now here’s an interesting dessert combination – the picture looked lovely, but how did it taste? Well I suppose if it made this flickr poster “giggle like a little girl” it had to be pretty good, don’t you think?
Experimenting with [...]
Chocolate Boyfriend
Originally uploaded by GreenThorns.
Here’s something interesting for you ladies. Your own chocolate boyfriend. This was a great picture that I ran across on Flickr and had to blog about it.
The packaging reads “My boyfriend really makes me drool. He’s a hotty! Super cool! But [...]
So I don’t know if anyone senses the irony that the first two test locations of “Showcolate” franchises from Brazilian company Showcolate Fondue Express are funded by Gary Findley, the former president of Curves International. (A diet and fitness business which has 10,000 locations nationwide) Perhaps he, better than most, knows the power of chocolate.
Findley [...]
“Our chocolate should be savored with all senses. Listen to the most romantic music, watch it like a child’s fantasy that turns into reality, smell it like the rarest of perfumes, dip your fingers into it and lick it slowly and passionately. Make love to it. Enjoy to the Max.” Reads the back half of [...]
The Oregonian reports that the Red Fox Bakery in McMinnville, Oregon produces whopping chocolate studded pumpkin seed cookies under the rationale that the pumpkin seeds are wholesome and nutritious. But with nearly each cookie containing an ounce of Bernard Callebaut bittersweet chocolate, this cookie loses its status as health food. The pumpkin seeds are actually [...]
So I was reading the site for the Bloomer Chocolate Company, and ran across a link on their contact us page that sent me to the National Cocoa Shell’s website.
Cocoa shell mulch, also called cocoa mulch, cocoa bean mulch, cocoa bean shell mulch, or cocoa bean hull mulch is made from the shells that come [...]
I ran across a rather comical article in Yahoo news:
Kenneth Affolter admitted to managing marijuana crops with the intention of manufacturing and distributing a range of joke candy and soft-drinks spiked with marijuana that parodied well-known brands. US Federal Agents raided warehouses registered to a company known as ‘Beyond Bomb’, and seized items with labels [...]
So I ran across and article written by Deborah Markus (BellaOnline’s “Chocolate Editor”… what a job!) on drinking chocolate when doing a search on Yahoo. So how does Drinking Chocolate vary from Hot Cocoa? Deborah explains that Hot Cocoa is and instant powder that produces a “sickly over-sweet” drink by adding either hot water or [...]
So if you’ve never been over to Engrish.com, you don’t know what kind of laughs that you’re missing. “Engrish” (yes, spelled with an “R”) is the humorous English mistakes that appear in Japanese advertising and product design. Since most of the English included on packaging is not an attempt to communicate, but more for its [...]
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