Chocolate

Nicobella’s Truffles Healthy Chocolate Addiction

Nicobella’s Truffles Healthy Chocolate Addiction Nicobella Truffles starts with high antioxidant 70% theo chocolate, yum!. Instead of using the cream and butter that is traditionally found in the creamy ganache center of traditional truffles, she uses oat milk, yes, as in oatmeal that is pressed and coconut oil. Then she add “super” foods like blueberries, [...]

Luxury Chocolates Expand in China

Luxury Chocolates Expand in China Despite the steadily growing presence of upmarket European and North American chocolate makers like Godiva, Leonidas, Debauve & Gallais, and Lindt, China has traditionally been a tough, highly fragmented market fraught with weak infrastructure and distribution networks. Nevertheless the market is posting strong growth in the tier-1 cities, rising 40% [...]

Japanese Café Offers 3D Printed Face Chocolate Truffle

Japanese Café Offers 3D Printed Face Chocolate Truffle How very oddly and endearingly Japanese: using a 3D scanner, a Tokyo café is offering chocolate truffles molded in the shape of your face. The café near Tokyo’s Shibuya train station is offering chocolate versions of people’s heads. All you need to do is show up with [...]

Sweet Love from Reed Krakoff

Sweet Love from Reed Krakoff No treat quite says Happy Valintine’s Day like Laudree’ macarons except for champagne. And this Vanleninte’s Day, the Parisian patisserie has teamed up with Reed Krakoff to turn out a limited-edition box of matte-black dark-chocolate morsels the pair calls Strange Love. Debuting on 8 February at Ladurée on Madison Avenue, [...]

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The World’s 5 Most Expensive Chocolates

The World’s 5 Most Expensive Chocolates Chocolate is mass produced to the point of ubiquity, the fact is that Chocolate has its origins in the ancient cultural practices of the Aztecs and Mayans. Both cultures used Chocolate drinks for ceremonial purposes and Cacao was highly prized. The Aztecs famously claimed it as ‘tribute’ from territories they conquered. The [...]

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Chocolate: Sweet Path to Nobel Prize

Chocolate: Sweet Path to Nobel Prize? By Chris Kaiser, Cardiology Editor, MedPage Today Published: October 12, 2012 Swiss chocolate is world renowned for its luxurious richness, but now it may also be known for it’s brain-enhancing power. An analysis in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that Switzerland’s high consumption of chocolate correlates with [...]

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Beverly Hills Hot Spots: MY VIENNA

The JULIUS MEINL story began in 1862 when Julius Meinl I opened his first grocery store, selling mainly spices and green coffee, in the center of Vienna. He created coffee blends and was the first to offer them freshly roasted for sale. Julius Meinl had found a new market as his innovation saved customers the [...]

The Greater LA Artisan Chocolate Festival & Wine Tasting Expo

The Greater LA Artisan Chocolate Festival & Wine Tasting Expo 17, 18 November 2012 There’s chocolate, and then there’s chocolate. We believe there’s a big difference between a chocolate candy and a hand-crafted truffle, or a bar of single-origin cacao. Chocolate Festivals America’s upcoming event in Los Angeles is the country’s very 1st Festival to [...]

Chocolate may protect the brain from stroke

Chocolate may protect the brain from stroke Chocolate might not be the healthiest thing for your waistline but research suggests it may protect against stroke. A study following more than 37,000 Swedish men showed those eating the most Chocolate were the least likely to have a stroke. It follows on from other studies that suggests [...]

Why Chocolate is Good for You

Consuming flavanol-rich Cocoa may enhance brain function Eating cocoa flavanols daily may help improve mild cognitive impairment, said a new research published this week in the American Heart Association’s journal Hypertension. In this study, 90 elderly participants with mild cognitive impairment were randomized to drink daily either 990 milligrams (high), 520 mg (intermediate) or 45 [...]

Chocolate is good for the Heart

A Dark Chocolate a Day Keeps the Doctor Away Daily Dark Chocolate is good for the Heart, loaded with Flavonoids Eating a1.6 oz bar of Dark Chocolate every day is good for you, in fact it is very good for you according to the findings of Mary Engler, Ph.D, RN, of the University of California, [...]

Chocolate is Good for You

Callebaut’s Cocoa Flavanols health claim backed by European food agency KFT, NSRGF The world’s largest chocolate manufacturer Barry Callebaut AG (EB:BARN) scored a victory Tuesday, winning the backing of a European food agency for its claim that Cocoa flavanols can be good for blood circulation. The Swiss company said the European Food Safety Authority, or [...]

Coffee, Chocolate, Men: The Richer the Better

There are many ways to a woman’s heart, but a box of chocolates maybe the most direct route. What makes chocolate so romantic is entirely a matter of logistics. Notes, texts, emails, Social Media compliments are all well and good, but thier role in romance is just symbolism, chocolate is worth a thousand Tweets? The [...]

Dark Chocolate is Good for You

Medical Dark Chocolate The best medical news. Studies in two prestigious scientific journals say dark chocolate, but not white chocolate or milk chocolate, is good for you Enjoyed in moderation, dark chocolate can fit into a mood-boosting, healthy diet. Recent studies have shown that dark chocolate lifts mood by increasing serotonin in the brain and [...]

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