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​This event is insane. I’ve never seen so many innocent-looking Japanese people, patiently waiting to buy chocolates one minute and stepping on your foot without a backwards glance the next. Japan’s …

One thing that will strike every first-time traveler to Japan is simply how gosh darn nice people are. They’ll hand you free cookies as you leave the store, and place …

Japan is a place where people will pay a eighty bucks for a melon, five dollars for a chocolate truffle, and fork over hundreds for less than a pound of …

Thailand is not yet known for its amazing chocolate or flavorful cacao. Most people visit Thailand for just a few days, exploring the floating markets in Bangkok or heading straight …

At Timeless Chocolate, the ingredients are decided upon first, and then the products are discovered therein. Unlike most chocolate makers, the guys (& girl) at Timeless are not focused on …

Do you know the lifespan of your taste buds? They’re the little bumpy bits protruding from the surface of your tongue. You use them every day; it might seem like …

Ever wanted to quit it all and go back school? Me, too. But I couldn’t afford it. Plus, my passion is chocolate, and pastry school is expensive. And it’s scary to …

As kids, we learn to eat our colors. This chocolate is white, maybe an aged-parchment shade of white, though white all the same. But the packaging, oh the packaging is …

I’ve just returned from another week on Taiwan. Originally inhabited by aboriginal peoples, and opened to the world by Dutch and Spanish explorers in the 1600’s, Taiwan is a stunning …

There are lots of accessible DIY instructions on the internet these days, especially for recipes. But have you ever followed one, already knowing it would fail? I mean, a lot of things taste …