I travel to Colorado a lot to visit family and friends and to enjoy the beauty of the mountains. Okay, who am I kidding? I travel there for the chocolate. My first stop is usually Piece, Love & Chocolate Company because there is always a delicious chocolate experience waiting for me there. This past visit I attended a Chocolate Lab on preparing Pots de Creme and a few more delectable desserts. Yes, I even ate some of that for breakfast with my dad who fostered my love affair with chocolate. Note, I call this a ...
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Robin Chocolates
Are you a chocolate traitor?
The ONLY flavor that can pull me away from chocolate? Pumpkin. So you can imagine how delighted I was when I found nicobella’s pumpkin chai truffles. Not only are they the perfect marriage of chocolate and pumpkin, they’re vegan. Many of my clients have found a need (or desire) to remove dairy from their diets. Introducing them to this outstanding vegan truffle is pure delight. These truffles were developed by Nichole Dandrea, a registered dietician who knows the value in creating a chocolate that is both sumptuous AND healthy. For this contest, you’ll need tell ...
Gnosis: Intention Personified
Gnosis: The World’s Most Nutritious Chocolate If I had seen this tag line anywhere else, I may have raised an eyebrow. But when you meet Vanessa and you see what she’s up to in the world, you can’t help but be impressed. Intention personified. Vanessa Barg, aka Chocolate Girl & certified holistic health counselor, made her first raw chocolate bars in a copper bowl in her mom’s postage stamp-size Harlem kitchen as gifts for her clients. Three years later, Gnosis Chocolate is the world’s leading manufacturer of raw organic chocolate. I’m a little fussy about ...
Madeleines au Chocolat
I love facebook. Yes, I spend entirely too much time looking at recipes, anecdotes, lessons and links when I should be working on more important things like figuring out how to use Pâte à Tartiner (cocoa hazelnut spread with olive oil) or writing a book about how I lost five pounds eating copious amounts of chocolate every day. But no, I fall into the rabbit hole several times a day to see what my facebook friends are up to. Where else can you learn a new language by reading your favorite food posts? Where else ...
Piece, Love & Chocolate
Enter Piece, Love, and Chocolate, in Boulder, Colorado, and you feel like you are walking into a scene from the movie, Chocolat, only better. This is no ordinary chocolate shop. It’s a magical chocolate boutique with more chocolate than you can imagine, both edible and fanciful. Sarah Amorese (aka Madame Chocolat) owns and operates this chocolate boutique. Sarah’s mission is to enchant and entertain you and I was, indeed, enchanted. So enchanted, that I found an excuse to return the very next day—just in case there was something I missed. Chef Sarah is a professional ...
Foodie Pheromones (California Dreamin’)
“Do you like chocolate?” I asked the young woman sitting beside me, flying the not-so-friendly skies of United. My husband rolled his eyes. I could almost hear him saying under his breath, “You’ll talk to anyone.” “Who doesn’t?” she smiled. I offered her one of my Santa Barbara chocolate finds. Her eyes lit up when she noticed hazelnuts bursting through layers of darker-than-night chocolate. I found Renaud’s Patisserie & Bistro in a similar conversation, with a total stranger, as my husband and I waited to board our plane to California. It started out with a ...
Sue Ann Gleason
Sue Ann Gleason is a culinary nutritionist, radiant life expert, and writer living in the Washington, DC area with her husband John. When not working with clients, she can be found sampling exotic chocolates or building broccoli forests in her mashed potatoes.
