Food

Koreans absolutely love snacks. When I taught in South Korea, all my elementary students lived for the late morning milk & snack break, usually opting for chips of some kind. …

How do you like your hot chocolate? If you’re one of the majority of chocoholics who like their hot cocoa sweet, adding a spoonful of sugar makes all the difference. But …

Caffeinated drinks are a part of most people’s daily routines. But we don’t often consider the caffeine content in chocolate when reaching for something to wake us right up. This …

Salt is usually used to finish off a dish by sprinkling some on top. It goes great on grilled meats, roasted vegetables, cakes, and pastries— as well as on chocolate. …

Did you know that besides the three basic types of chocolate, dark, milk, and white, a distinction needs to be made between couverture chocolate and compound chocolate? One is considered …

I feel very passionately about steering people towards better-quality chocolate, made with cacao bought at a fair price. But trying to find the best fair trade chocolate brands can be …

Fair Trade chocolate is often lauded as the most equitable chocolate in the world, yet farmers only receive 20% above market price. In a world where most cacao farmers live …

How do you like your hot chocolate; sweet? Salty? Savory? I’ve had all of the above from some of the best chocolate makers in the world, and now I want …

Have you ever come across vanilla sugar in a recipe and wondered what it was? A widely popular sweetener in Europe, vanilla sugar is essentially a flavored sugar. This ingredient …

Over the last 10 years, I’ve watched as the US has long been a dominant force in the global craft chocolate scene, and as the power my country holds in chocolate …