Our Exotic Bar Armoire spotlight this week is on the cherished Tuscan bean-to-bar chocolatiers of Amedei. Their “Amedei 9” bar is a sensuous and exquisite blend of cacao from 9 different plantations and it has won the prestigious “Golden Bean” award from The Acadamy of Chocolate. This phenomenal offering has high tasting notes of citrus […]
Chocolate News, Health & Education kiosk
In line with our mission to delight, entertain and educate our guests, we will soon finish and install our much anticipated (though admittedly secret to this point) “Chocolate News, Health & Education” kiosk. This display will have over thirty articles we have collected over the years regarding all sorts of interesting tidbits about chocolate – […]
From Paris with Love
Some of Francois Pralus’ bars are finally here from Paris!!! What a chocolate genius this man is! We have focused in on two of his Indonesian offerings first, because they are unique, of exceptional quality, and we wanted to expand our global chocolate offerings. We have mouthwatering dark bars (75%) from criollo hybrid beans – […]
Update: Week #3
We are coming into our third week this Tuesday and we are having so much fun… although, admittedly, we are all a little tired. This has been very exciting and chocolate covered adrenaline has been coursing through our arteries – which, BTW, according to scientists at the Harvard University School of Public Health, the European Journal of Nutrition and Medicine and over 136 different studies about chocolate and cacao, the internal lining of
A “Torte” by any other name would be a “Cake”…
Chef Genny and I had such a very interesting discussion the other day. It was in regards to the term “torte” vs “cake” and the differences between them. You see, Genny seems concerned that if we call our specialty cake offerings based on my truffle flavors “Truffle Tortes” as opposed to “Truffle Cakes”, we will confuse our beloved guests.