We’ll Be Celebrating Ixcacao-Ween
HALLOWEEN is a holiday of cheap chocolate and the heartache (and headaches) it brings. Admittedly not fair, but we blame the great pumpkin. Well, not actually Linus Van Pelt’s wonderful vision. We love...
View ArticleChocolate to Chocolate In, Ashes Out
IN honor of 2 November and El Dia de los Muertos we’re working on a new view of the circle of life. Let’s replace the dreary “ashes to ashes” with a concept of chocolate to chocolate. The idea is that...
View ArticleMake/Buy/Drink Chocolate With a Holiday Kick
We’ve never checked the legality — so please don’t rat him out — but every year around now Grumps uses his little corner of one of the back rooms, his “lab/office,” to create his own holiday chocolate...
View Article2013 Welcome with Traditional (?) Feast of Many Chocolates
Should you have an interest in what goes on when the doors are locked, we’re celebrating the onset of 2013 with our Feast of Many Chocolates Techno Chocolate Baby Style. Actually, we’re not going all...
View ArticleSeriously? Chocolate and Avocado Delectables?
Some might say that even a momentary obsession with chocolate and avocados is about as useful as selling rhinocerous dung for charity. However, wondrous taste can emerge from what might seem silly —...
View ArticleSt. Pat’s Celebratory Liquor/Chocolate Brown/Brown Cake
We probably should think about snakes or the wonders of religious belief or most anything else that would abet our soul’s salvation … or even business. Instead, our attention during the annual...
View ArticleQuestions and Answers with Madeleine Begun Kane, Limerick Laureate 2013
We know National Chocolate Week is a silly, marketing-driven week of obligation with a non-pedigree provenance. However, that doesn’t mean we’re letting it escape unnoticed. So, with due respect and...
View ArticleQuestions and Answers with ihearttruffles.com’s Judith Antelman
While “follow your nose” is the better known advice, around the store you’ll hear a lot more urging to “follow your mouth.” The idea is to taste, and not in haste, until you track down the elusive...
View ArticleChocatzo (chocolate matzo) 2013/5773
This year Grumps brought in a slightly different take on his chocolate matzo, his annual tribute (last year’s version) to the Passover observance of the Sjokoladsteins’s, neighbors of his family while...
View ArticleRespect the (Chocolate) Bar
Why is the chocolate bar a drugstore staple and not a bakery highlight? That was growling-ever-louder debate earlier today between Swiss intern Hans Subebraune, our assistant baker Theo Panadero from...
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