Days sick: 0Days danced: 0This month I was getting a lot of tests done, reconnecting with a lot of people, moving back into DC, and starting a new venture (or two) online. I did some seminars & other book learnin’ for work-related things, in addition to (almost) finishing the redesign of my site. What I’m …

Chocolate can taste creamy and sweet and bitter and umami and sour… but is chocolate vegan? The short answer is that it depends; it can be. Many dark chocolates are vegan, and a small but rising number of white and milk chocolates are vegan. There’s currently no vegan ruby chocolate, but I have no doubt …

Jump To Recipe Ever since I was in middle school, I’ve been trying to figure out the best approach to a chocolate truffle recipe. The sugar bombs I made back then used sweetened condensed milk and chocolate with minuscule amounts of cacao. They’d probably taste cloying and, well, gross to my adult palate, like a …

“We have this motto… never ask your customer what they want, because they of course have no idea what they want. A customer, a consumer, a person on the street can only tell you what they already know.” -Julia Zotter, Creative Director at Zotter Chocolate Since 1995, Zotter Chocolate has been creating confections in southeastern …

The number of chocolate shops in Brussels is meant to astound. Most people will point you towards the most established Belgian chocolate shops in Brussels, like Leonidas, Mary’s, Godiva, and Planete, but historic doesn’t always mean good. Sometimes crappy products continue to thrive because every guide book is just recommending what all the others are. …

Days sick: 0 (sooooort of)Days danced: 0 I can sum up this month in just a few sentences: I’ve been working, biking, crying; I almost moved out of ran away from my childhood home, bottomed out emotionally, and then finally took my illness into my own hands. After weeks of nighttime agony and years of …

If you’re on this page, you’re likely familiar with craft chocolate, also known as bean to bar chocolate. For those who aren’t, this particular type of chocolate is known for being an ethical, transparently-sourced, and much tastier version than its generic counterparts. Craft chocolate also happens to be easier than ever to find, both online …

Jump To Recipe I’ve been trying to find the perfect chocolate sauce recipe for years. Through many trials & errors with various types of chocolate, fat ratios, and even thickness of chocolate bits, I’ve finally got this chocolate sauce recipe down to an art. All you need is a spoonful of milk, some of your …

Fiji is not a commonly-referenced cacao origin, but the island chain produces hundreds of tons of cacao each year. On the global scale, this amount barely registers but for the fact that it shows rising production. Yet the vast majority of the chocolate consumed on the islands is imported, and largely bears rather distinctive purple …

“If somebody wants to buy anything from another country, they have to be more responsible to the end of it… you just need to stick with it… put your life into it.” -Tomo Zukoshi, Co-Founder of Adi Chocolate and Fijiana Cacao While the vast majority of travelers will associate Fiji only with resorts, pristine beaches, …