Chocolate Writing

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 …

“As soon as the show got aired… we emptied out within 24 hours. So we had to start shipping out pallets and pallets of chocolate …

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 …

“Marketing can help, but… it shouldn’t be [the] primary reason that someone purchases a product.” -Julia Choi-Rodriguez, Co-founder of Vesta Chocolate Julia & Roger Rodriguez …

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 …