A chocolate tour of NYC? With an adventurous outlook and a love of chocolate…well, why not? A few years ago, after I had learned that the cacao bean was my ‘spirit animal’ (or food), I decided that maybe learning to make chocolate or get into the...
Warning: this recipe for cocoa, bacon and steak has been referred to as “sensuous” and really good for that date (or “date night”) when you want to use really intoxicating ingredients…chocolate, bacon, steak and more…. (really...
Imagine yourself standing on a mountainside dirt road in the tropics. It’s a humid day, the temperature is in the 80s and the sky is slightly overcast. You are in the middle of the rainforest, visiting an organic, beyond-Fair-Trade cacao farm with fifteen...
Costa Rica. Chocolate. When you hear the first, do you connect it with the second? When I remember back to my adventures in Costa Rica, some of the best memories are chocolate related. I saw my first cacao tree, and it’s weirdly attached fruit of yellow/green pods,...
