Saturday after chocolate tours, I decided to take advantage of the milder temps and the fact that the evenings stay lighter for longer now, and walked all the way from the South End to Downtown Crossing for a bit of shopping. While I was in the mood for shoes, I didn’t find anything that particularly […]
How serendipitous for us that the weather gods should smile down and grant us with sunny skies and the warmest temps of the year on the very same day that the ice cream gods–Ben and Jerry–should bequeath that today, from the hours of noon to 8 p.m., you can get yourself some free ice cream! […]
This is a great recipe I’ve made a few times for friends that involves those two blissful ingredients we discussed in yesterday’s post–chocolate and peanut butter. The original recipe calls for crunchy peanut butter, but when I have made it, I have switched that out for the White Chocolate Chocolate Wonderful peanut butter from […]
There are few things that most chocoholics (at least the American ones) agree on as a more delectable combination than peanut butter and chocolate. I hear it time and time again on chocolate tours, people frequently citing peanut butter cups, chocolate peanut butter cupcakes, cookies, cheesecake, whatever, as their absolute most favorite chocolate dessert. It probably […]
While I was back home in Connecticut, I wanted to make sure I stopped in at the little chocolate shop near the center of town called Sweet Cioccolata. Sweet Cioccolata has been in town for over 10 years now, and is owned by Rachel Ceste, a longtime chocolate enthusiast who started making chocolates as a hobby while attending cooking […]
Though I didn’t come to know it until it had already become an adopted way of life for me, but since I was very young, I have long ascribed to the late, great, Jim Belushi’s assertion that little chocolate donuts are indeed “the breakfast of champions.” While this is by all means not the only […]
I stopped in at Hotel Chocolat on Newbury Street today on this lovely mild Good Friday to see what I could see. The store was packed with Easter shoppers, looking to fill their baskets with eggs, bunnies, chicks, and all other sorts of pastel-colored treats. The Hotel Chocolat Easter line each year is some of […]
Everyone who buys bananas often finds themselves with the rather common scenario of having a bunch of overripe (read: brown and mushy) bananas on their countertop. Such a situation usually results in the bananas getting stored away in the freezer to be used at a later date, or put immediately into a bowl to be […]
So, I am not a coffee drinker. I remember in high school, my guidance counselor telling me that if I was able to make it through college without drinking coffee, then I will be able to count myself amongst the very few. To this day, the best I can do is mix half a cup […]
Easter is fast approaching, but before you pick up those Easter basket bunnies, be aware and beware! Impostor chocolate rabbits flood the shelves every season, and if you’re not careful, those bunnies can make their way into your homes, and even worse, in your mouth! As both a hard-core chocoholic, and Jedi master bargain hunter, […]
The summer before my sophomore year of college, I went through a very difficult jaw surgery. Despite the fact that the operation has been streamlined over the years to the point that patients no longer have to have their mouth wired shut and only one night in the hospital is required, the recovery period after […]
As much as people enjoy chocolate, and eat it all the time, there’s actually quite a lot of mystery surrounding it. Through leading chocolate tours, and visiting as many chocolate shops as I do, I’ve noticed there are quite a few types of chocolate that many people are unsure of exactly what they are. Much […]