by Mark Christian | Jul 30, 2011 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
(Excerpt from Fresco’s #210 bar review) Fresco Rob Anderson shies away from absolutes. For him, “chocolate is about personal taste, preference & a number of other nebulous criteria”. He prefers to list each bar & its parameter settings (roast, conche,...
by Mark Christian | Jun 30, 2011 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
We’re all travelers in the wilderness of this world, & the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend – Robert Louis Stevenson Many have seized upon Chris Bright’s 2001 article for World Watch in search of strategies / tactics using Theobroma cacao,...
by Mark Christian | May 31, 2011 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
We’re all on drugs – Weezer In line with his film Roger & Me detailing the heartless incompetence of Detroit’s carmakers, Michael Moore once made an aside that if the government really wanted to defang organized crime, they should hire bungling GM management...
by Mark Christian | Apr 18, 2011 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
A new style of bar-making has emerged throughout the New World, dramatic enough to be added to the C-spot™ Census. These clean / lean ‘n mean high-percentage pieces embody an indigenous ‘retro-American’ approach. Usually containing only cocoa beans...
by Mark Christian | Apr 1, 2011 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
The FCC has its clusterfuck of banned words (none of them prohibited on this site). Here’s ours, & please contact us to add your own. DECADENT (or use with caution) DELECTABLE DELICIOUS DELIGHTFUL DIVINE CHOCOLATEY; CHOCOLATINESS COMPLEX, adj., excepting the 6th...
