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...
