Learn About Chocolate

In these strange times of constant lockdown, small chocolate businesses need our support now more than ever. So in an effort to make your shopping …

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’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 …

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 …

I’ll be frank— any low carb chocolate could be keto chocolate if you eat a small enough amount of it. The problem is, most of …