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£57.00 Info / Buy Product Information Learn about the history of chocolate before the chocolatier takes you on a journey to create a filling for your truffles before dipping them into Belgian chocolate and then decorating your masterpieces. Great fun for groups, couples and individuals.

Raw Cacao Beans Cacao beans were used as currency in the time of the Maya. At the Guatemalan site of Balbera, 74 km southwest of Guatemala City, archaeologists discovered a cache of what appeared to be petrified cacao beans in an urn. A lab expert in Guatemala identified them as the criollo variety of cacao.

The Maya peoples (of Mexico) apparently drank chocolate drinks in their marriage and engagement ceremonies. According to Michael Coe, co-author of The True History of Chocolate, “Chocolate drinks occupied the same nice as expensive French champagne does in our own culture.” What people did at such

Charles (Chuck) Siegel is probably the sweetest man in the chocolate business.  He seems happiest when he can share his love of the product of the cacao pod with others, encouraging them to literally get their hands dirty with the confection.

Earlier this week I met an energetic Italian woman in the baking section of my local Barnes & Noble bookstore. After simultaneously reaching for the same book - then laughing because neither one of us was willing to take it (there was only one copy) - we began talking about our favorite recipes.

My life this week keeps zig-zagging. Some amazing and wonderful things kept me from normal work and now some sad events I don’t remember what I promised for today’s post, but I know what you’re getting. When someone dies, it’s usually better to remember them and the highlights of their life and what they have given you rather than collapse in a puddle.

Can the Egg Cream Make a Comeback? By Jennifer 8. Lee Chocolate Bar on the Lower East Side is reviving the egg cream in new flavors. (Photo: Workhouse Publicity) Updated, 1:50 p.m. | It has been said, as the Holy Roman Empire was a misnomer in that it was neither holy nor Roman, so does the egg cream have a deceptive name, since the fizzy drink contains neither egg nor cream.

On Thursday, my summer finally started. I felt light as a feather mainly because my summer session on campus had ended. Yes, I was one of those unfortunate souls who signed up for summer school and it was a tough 8 weeks. 2 days a week, from the hours of 6 to 9, in a [...]

Jean-Yves Kermarec does not write books or make movies to share the story of his town Brest and its surroundings. Instead he decided to use his talent as an Artisan Chocolatier to give others a taste for the history of the sometimes wind and rain battered city in northern Brittany.

I’m not going to provide any analysis tonight. Nor any bad jokes. (both of those statements are almost true) If you want the ‘light’ version of the post, skip straight to the third clip. First, a look at how some people describe the making of chocolate confectionery in the US Second, a look at