by Mark Christian | May 19, 2013 | Newsletters |
Crushpad Newsletter Newsbites for the Chocoscenti May 2013, Issue #5 — Issue #4 here Real Fake Chocolate Pleather, astro-turf, inflatable sex dolls, bio-luminescence plants, marinol, vanillin, & printable 3-D guns. When will synthetic...
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 | May 6, 2013 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
(Excerpt from Willie’s El Blanco White Chocolate bar review) Other than God & sex, chocolate is the most powerful force on Earth. Its connections to the other 2 are indisputable: Theobroma cacao named by Linneaus is Greek for God-food; Cacáo earns its...
by Mark Christian | Apr 19, 2013 | Newsletters |
Crushpad Newsletter Newsbites for the Chocoscenti April 2013, Issue #4 — Issue #3 here Is Chocolate Gay? Other than God & sex, chocolate is the most powerful force on Earth. Its connections to the other 2 are...
by Mark Christian | Apr 15, 2013 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
(Excerpt from Amedei’s Blanco de Criollo bar review & a sequel to Chocolate Awards: Feast or Famine… or Fraud? Part I) As the British Empire continues its retreat to the “emerald isle” as Shakespeare put it, England itself has paradoxically become...
by Mark Christian | Apr 6, 2013 | Book Reviews, Bottom Shelf |
Adapted from the review of Jacob Schor, ND, FABNO, Natural Medicine Journal, February 2013 Welcome to the end of an anomalous period in which some distortion in the time-space continuum appears to have turned things inside out, upside down, & backwards. For...
by Mark Christian | Mar 19, 2013 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
(Excerpt from Pacari’s 70% Raw Cacao bar review) A chocolate with more labels on the packaging than a NASCAR driver has endorsements. But this is no ordinary vanity bar. Naturally it sports the Demeter Biodynamic sticker at a remove above & beyond organic,...
by Mark Christian | Mar 19, 2013 | Newsletters |
Crushpad Newsletter Newsbites for the Chocoscenti March 2013, Issue #3 — Issue #2 here Chocolate Awards: Feast or Famine… or Fraud? People often ask us “what’s the best chocolate in the world?” Of course we direct them to The...
by Mark Christian | Feb 15, 2013 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
Brady Brelinski, editor of The Flavors of Cacao, caught up with the C-spot’s® elusive figurehead. This far- & wide-ranging interview covers lots of ground & dives to considerable depth. Is it really, as Brady said, a “chocolate magnum opus”? Take a...
by Mark Christian | Feb 12, 2013 | Newsletters |
Crushpad Newsletter Newsbites for the Chocoscenti VD: you know you have it. We all do. No, not that, but Valentine’s Day — that special day when humanity, engaged in a conspiracy of love, feels compelled to give heart-shaped boxes to prove...
