The Boston area’s connections to sweets runs deep. Consider the fact that the very first chocolate factory in the United States was started in Dorchester, the first roadside confectionary in the country was started in Shrewsbury, and the NECCO candy factory operated out of Cambridge for decades before relocating to Revere. Not far from the […]
So I’m off on an adventure today–not in Beantown, but rather, the Big Apple! Since the Chocolate Companion had to fly to the NYC to receive an award last night, I decided to take advantage of the opportunity and take a bus in to see what kinds of adventures we could have. Last time […]
This weekend, in celebration of my birthday, I went out to dinner with a group of dear friends with included my Chocolate Companion and my best friend who was born on National Chocolate Day. For the fourth year in row, I selected Brasserie Jo in the Colonnade Hotel in Boston as the location of the […]
A week ago this past Sunday, my Mom came up for a visit since she had a long weekend thanks to Connecticut public schools’ April vacation. I decided to take her to Captain Jackson’s Colonial Chocolate Shop, a new exhibit at the Old North Church that had just opened the day before on April 13. The shop […]
On Monday, I took a ride down route 9 for some retail therapy, and while I was in Framingham, decided it was a good idea to get some Chocolate Therapy in too! I first met Pam Griffin, one of the owners of Chocolate Therapy, when I went to a Smiling Stiletto shoe party out in […]
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 […]
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 […]
Last week, while taking my car out for an oil change, I went a-walking along the BU area of Commonwealth Avenue to see what I could see. I happened upon a spot that I had heard of before, but never had the opportunity to properly explore, and since I had time to kill, I figured […]
Yesterday, before the March snow made it once again treacherous to venture out, I had a mini chocolate adventure in the North End. Cocoanuts, a new specialty boutique opened on Parmenter Street in July, and yesterday, I was invited to check it out. I had first heard of the store back in December when they had […]
One of the most interesting aspects of learning more about the chocolate world is being awakened to the wonderful possibilities that lay within the seemingly simple chocolate bar. What most of us were brought up eating–those teeny tiny Hersheys bars we often got in our trick-or-treat buckets, do not offer an accurate depiction of the […]
One of the delightful aspects of working in anything related to chocolate is that you get to meet other folks who have an enthusiasm for the subject matter. Yesterday was a great example of this. In the early afternoon hours, I headed over to the South End to have a meeting with the folks of […]