Blog Updates

I’m currently planning my fourth trip to Jeju Island, so I figured it was time to give this post an update! Even if you only …

Small chocolate businesses need our support now more than ever. So in an effort to make your shopping easier (& with the holidays in mind), …

This site has always been about my relationship with chocolate. It’s written, edited, and designed from my perspective, and even when I reach out for …

I can’t in good conscience run this website without talking about chocolate in Washington DC, my hometown. There is thankfully no more Godiva in DC, …

I was kind of surprised by the paucity of chocolate shops in New Orleans. There are only five places where you can buy bonbons or …

Couverture chocolate is well-known within the chocolate industry, and without it, most of your favorite chocolate shops would have never gotten started. This strange stuff– …

You’ve almost certainly seen cacao nibs on the shelf at your local market, and you probably understand that they have some connection to chocolate. But …

Baking with chocolate can be a ton of fun or a total disaster— my goal here is to give you the complete confidence to be …

How are cacao and cocoa different? Which is healthier, cocoa or cacao? Do cocoa and cacao taste the same? As a chocolate writer, I get …

We’ve all run into ingredients in chocolate that we couldn’t recognize, much less wanted to put into our bodies: E492, vanillin, cocoa butter substitute, artificial …