No Chocolate Mousse Droppings Today
To celebrate the serious and silly, make sure to take part in today’s celebration of National Chocolate Mousse Day, while not quite letting go of Easter — or for extreme frivolity, 6 March’s National...
View ArticleFor Alice’s Sake Get Some Chocolate in your 4/20 Brownies
The brownies of Alice B. Toklas, literature’s most famous, have no chocolate. Not to harsh your mellow, but scandale! The iconic figure‘s bakery results in a melange a bit fruitier than brownish: the...
View ArticleNational Chocolate Custard Month, Believe It or Not
If for whatever personal perversity you wanted to test the chances of being able to grow tired of chocolate custard then today is the first day of the rest of your life (well, month really). They —...
View ArticleCacao (Cinco, really) de Mayo
For both victory and defeat there is chocolate. At least that’s how we plan to commemorate Cinco de Mayo, Mexico’s oft misunderstood celebration. While often thought of — at least by most of its...
View ArticleChocolate Museums and (maybe) Barbecue
Based on customer words bouncing off the glass display cases in the front of the store this week it seems everyone in and around Riverside is hitting the road for short and long Memorial Day weekend...
View ArticleM Day Blueberry-Ginger-Chocolate Biscotti
Admittedly, the biscotti recipe we’re playing around with in the kitchen lab this Memorial Day doesn’t have much of an obvious or direct link with war or soldiers or even a traditional holiday BBQ....
View ArticleTJeff Is National Chocolate Ice Cream Man of the Year
We’re celebrating POTUS III, Thomas Jefferson, on Friday, June 7, National Chocolate Ice Cream Day. Not for a particularly historical reason — and despite the centuries of other ice cream history...
View ArticleGerman Didn’t Invent “His” Chocolate Cake and Was an Englishman
Sam German got swallowed by his cake. A southern belle lost her name altogether. And a cake was given origins not its own. Happy National German Chocolate Cake Day! History (with editiorializing) and...
View ArticleThe Why Not Men and Chocolate FD Rant
Father’s Day couldn’t possibly be the wrong day to ask when did common sense die and leave chocolate to the ladies? Moms get chocolate (and flowers, but that whinge is for a different site), but on...
View ArticleHow About Some Love for a National Chocolate Sorbet Day?
May we propose a National Chocolate Sorbet Day? Admittedly, the question(s) is (are) more properly, “to whom may we propose 1 July as NCSD?” and “how do we get help to make it so?” Tangentially, we’d...
View ArticleCommerce Destroys Perfectly Wonderful Chocolate-Peanut Butter Marriage
Some days it feels like promoting chocolate is a crusade. And on those days we can’t help thinking how ridiculous that sounds. The point is, we woke up feeling a bit ambivalent talking up and wishing...
View ArticleCan’t Go Wrong on Nat’l Chocolate Chip Day
Think outside the cookie. It’s national chocolate chip day – for which we have to thank Ruth Graves Wakefield,who sold promotional rights to her Toll House Cookie to Nestle for a lifetime supply of...
View ArticleBaking Up Some August Romance
August. Hot, sweaty, escape-anywhere-else-on-vacation August. However, there are days in the store, even in this month, when we forget the woes of weather outside and romance perfumes the air. One of...
View ArticleDon’t Gorp Without Chocolate
Joyous National Gorp Day! Are you loose or baked? Perhaps more accurately written as GORP, the informal mix of fruits is acronymaticaly named from “good old raisins (and) peanuts,” or, alternatively...
View ArticleHorror, but Not Horrible Chocolate
There is a time and place for chocolate … and for many that is today’s Halloweenapalooza. And there is a time and place for horror … (see above). For those whose All Hallows eve is the time for a...
View ArticleGiving More Thanks (Next Year) for Chocolate
The problem with Thanksgiving is also its strength: TRADITION. They don’t get started very easily. So, it’s mostly the same food year after year. Not that this is a necessarily bad thing, but it does...
View ArticleChocoMas Bells Ringing Soon
Only 14 shopping days left until ChocoMas. What to do? Should we prepare for the big day by making batches of triple chocolate granola our breakfast every day? Would it be better to channel the spirit...
View ArticleUp for the Game, Down for the Party Food
The biggest disappointment [so far] about Stupendous BowlTM XLVIII is that because the New Orleans Saints didn’t make it, we really don’t have a legitimate angle on which to wax rhapsodic on bourbon...
View ArticleCover Your Lover (in Chocolate, Of Course)
A return to the roots of Valentine’s Day — the Roman ides of February holiday, Lupicalia, with its nakedness, goat sacrifices, whipping women in the streets, and lots of wine — would make 14 February a...
View ArticleChocolating Mardi Gras
For too many people chocolate is only about excess. Even though they refuse to consider subtleties, we still feel compelled to dedicate to them a few words of advice on celebrating Fat Tuesday (Mardi...
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