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Korea is known as the Land of Morning Calm because at night is when things really get loud. Koreans, resident foreigners, and tourists alike all love to spend a warm …

If you’re like me, you probably keep a wide variety of chocolates around just because you want to. Whether it’s to satisfy a craving, a quick sugar high, or just …

Raw chocolate is often marketed as a superfood. It’s widely thought to have extra health benefits due to its higher nutritional content than conventional chocolate. But rather than strictly being …

Nobody says no to a fresh batch of homemade chocolate chip cookies. I mean, chocolate chips were literally made for chocolate chip cookies, after all. But what can you do when …

I consider myself a bit of an expert on the topic of Korean candies, particularly because I spent my first year in Korea frequenting the local grocery stores for sweets …

​The Northwest Chocolate Festival Award winners were just announced a couple weeks ago, so it seemed like the perfect time to post about my experience there. While I didn’t play …

When left in less-than-ideal conditions, chocolate bloom can develop and be mistaken for mold. Chocolate can’t grow mold because it’s anhydrous, and can’t hold water, but it can spoil. The …

One of cinema’s mysteries is the truth about the chocolate river in the movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. Reality is somewhere between the limits of Germany in the …

The best chocolate covered espresso beans have a ratio of 2:1, chocolate to coffee beans— in my eyes that makes the chocolate twice as important as the coffee. So I …

Chocolate has been around for thousands of years in one form or another. Yet it’s only been in the last 100 or so years that it’s become a global powerhouse, …