by Mark Christian | Dec 7, 2017 | Book Reviews, Middle Shelf
Wine & chocolate pairings form ruinous marriages that quickly sue for divorce in the court of oral chambers. Conversely, chocolate & spirits – whiskey, cognac, armagnac, et.al. — succeed fabulously well together. So well they hook-up in palette porno....
by Mark Christian | Dec 16, 2016 | Book Reviews, Middle Shelf
Seek & Ye Shall Find: Faith, Chocolate, & Enlightenment Buy it Here FULL DISCLOSURE: Rev. Dr. R.M. Peluso is a contributing editor to the C-spot®. The book reviewed below mentions the C-spot® & discusses her work with, & the relationship to it. Other...
by Mark Christian | May 15, 2013 | Middle Shelf |
It’s been a couple of years since director of sourcing & QA manager Georg Bernardini left Coppeneur Chocolate, a barsmith that vaulted to stratospheric heights around 2009 on the strength of his work on seed selection & applying the German art of...
by Mark Christian | Dec 23, 2012 | Book Reviews, Middle Shelf |
Everyone knows folks insanely devoted to chocolate (ahem) but who knew Jews are meshuga (crazy) for it? Leave it to a yente Rabbi to get all farklempt over it. Rabbi Debbie Prinz. The working title of her book – Jews on the Chocolate Trail – might God-smack of some...
by Mark Christian | Dec 13, 2009 | Book Reviews, Middle Shelf |
Get it on Amazon Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures (“SGPP”) – a title that resounds as an answer back at RC Zaehner’s Mysticism, Sacred & Profane (1961) & whose subtitle faintly echoes Tomas Hurtados’ Chocolate y Tobaco Ayuno Eclesiastico y Natural...
by Mark Christian | Aug 4, 2009 | Middle Shelf |
Bookcase Location: MIDDLE SHELF – Permanent Collection A scholarly compendium for which the title is the synopsis. McNeil has convened a symposium of world-class scholars. The book gets off to a halting start on the tree’s botany that suffers from an...