Chocolate Adventures

Before visiting these dozen or so Denver chocolate shops, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from the Mile High City. I knew there were …

We’re all familiar with chocolate, as a flavor, a food, and in some cases, and obsession (see: me). But when you’re looking at the back …

Rather than chocolate, Boulder, Colorado is known for rock climbing, yoga, and incredibly expensive real estate. Yet the city is also home to ChocoLove Chocolate …

In another installment of my Chocolate Basics Series, this primer on cocoa butter is a deep dive into one of the most important ingredients in …

Did you know that most Mesoamerican cultures had and still have some sort of foaming ritual surrounding the preparation of drinking chocolate? Those charged with …

“If you have any privilege that you can get away with doing things that make people’s lives better, you need to do it. Because everybody …

It’s not often that someone asks me about the possibility of a chocolate allergy, but it’s come up enough that I just had to write …

Think of your favorite chocolate; just humor me. Is it a smooth milk chocolate? Or a dark bar with whole almonds on the back? Oh, …

Chocolate liquor is the base ingredient of every dark chocolate on the market. It’s an integral part of any milk chocolate, and is actively altered …

Is chocolate dark actually healthy? The buzz around dark chocolate these days is focused on flavonoids and trace minerals, some of the molecules that make …