North America

Not everyone can afford to make it to Paris, but most everyone has an ongoing (and at times unhealthy) relationship with chocolate. Mine started long …

When you’re visiting Alaska, chocolate doesn’t usually come to mind. Most people visit for the jaw-dropping views and nature-oriented activities, like hiking Root Glacier. The …

The Seattle chocolate scene is seriously overlooked by the uninitiated. Those of us obsessed with craft chocolate, however, know it as one of the fine …

I’ll never forget my first taste of fresh cacao, sour and floral and so much sweeter than I had anticipated. I was so surprised at …

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 …

*Grandma, Several years ago, you found yourself in quite bad health, and at 90-years-old-minus-a-week you called all your family to your side. You wanted to …

Now that I’ve left Belize and have been in Mexico for a few weeks, it’s time to look back at how I spent me 10 …

The Dominican Republic is a beautiful and culturally-rich place, as most are. But my experience there was made markedly less fun by the other tourists …

While traveling under my Burch Fellowship, I tried to keep track of the overarching things I was internalizing as I learned across the continent. I never …

When was the last time you ate bone marrow & creme brulee in the same day? For me, it was just last month. At the end of January …