Faux Choco Museum
The world needs a chocolate museum or cocoa hall of fame. Until a real one is built we have hype and hope. Mostly the former — although there was a pinch of the latter — was featured for a week ending...
View ArticlePretty to View; Coulda Been Great to Taste
The best news is that the chocolate temple will be destroyed 21 December 2012, in keeping with the Mayan calendars “end of time.” The worst news is that thousands of pounds of cacao beans suffered the...
View ArticleSpectacle Not Delectable
Even in chocolate, where one almost always wants more, bigger isn’t necessarily better. Also, you can’t judge a chocolate by its cute or clever appearance. Those are the lessons to be learned as we...
View ArticleKnow It When You Taste/See It?
Heard a mediocre talent describe herself on a TV chat show as an artist. It is probably true, which told us two things: 1) we realized it no longer means anything special to be identified —...
View ArticleSometimes a Chocolate Is Not a Chocolate
Chocolate use is not always about chocolate consumption. It’s almost Freudian that way. The most recent example of this comes from a media-conscious, progressive, post-modernish arty, activist...
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...
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