Tag: chocolate

  • Craft Sense Holiday Pairing: Chocolate and Cannabis Strain

    Craft Sense Holiday Pairing: Chocolate and Cannabis Strain

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  • Akesson: the Man Behind Madagascar Chocolate

    Akesson: the Man Behind Madagascar Chocolate

    Bertil Akesson is the man who put Madagascan chocolate on the map. He is also the one keeping Madagascar on the map by supplying about 95% of all cacao from the island. Imagine a European Indiana Jones. Trade some of his American brashness for a bit of European debonairness and you’ll come close to describing Mr.…

  • Drinking Chocolate: From Aztecs to Swiss Miss to Craft

    Drinking Chocolate: From Aztecs to Swiss Miss to Craft

    When the days turn cooler, many of us turn to one of our favorite warm beverages – hot chocolate. Yet many don’t know that drinking chocolate has a history that dates back thousands of years. From over 3,000-year-old civilizations to commercialization to today, this chocolate beverage continues to evolve. Origins of Drinking Chocolate in Early…

  • Is White Chocolate Actually Chocolate?

    Is White Chocolate Actually Chocolate?

    White chocolate – it always makes an appearance over the holidays in coffee shops and on our desserts, but is white chocolate actually chocolate?  The truth is that true white chocolate is something of a distant relative to the dark, bittersweet chocolate currently in the spotlight. These milky white bars are not as mysterious as…

  • The New Pink Chocolate Called Ruby Chocolate

    The New Pink Chocolate Called Ruby Chocolate

    We’ve all heard of dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and white chocolate. But pink chocolate? Well now that’s a thing, too. Barry Callebaut, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of cocoa products, announced its latest invention on September 5, 2017. The Swiss company unveiled the fourth type of “naturally colored chocolate”, Ruby, more than 80 years after inventing…