Apartment Therapy Tagged: chocolate

Fair Trade: Cocoa

Although we do our best to eat local, some things are just grown too far from home. One of these foods is cocoa, most of which comes from the Ivory Coast region of West Africa, as well as Central Amer...

Quick Tip: Chop Chocolate with a Serrated Knife

Chopping chocolate for things like brownies and fudge was always one of our least favorite kitchen tasks. That is, until a pastry chef friend suggested we try using a serrated bread knife!...

Recipe Review: Chocolate Chip Brownies from the Boston Globe

Nothing beats a good home-made brownie, and these definitely hit the mark. Get our thoughts and recipe notes after the jump!...

Recipe: The Best Chocolate Ice Cream

OK, calling it the best might be a bit of a stretch: the true merit of something as beloved and simple as chocolate ice cream comes not just from its formula, but when and where it's consumed, the qua...

Recipe: Mexican Chocolate and Almond Ice Cream

I grew up drinking Mexican hot chocolate, made from those granular discs of Ibarra Mexican chocolate that were always lurking somewhere in our Los Angeles kitchen. Combined with hot milk and whizzed ...

Chocolate Gelato with Salted Caramel Pecans
Best Lick! 2008 Ice Cream Contest Entry #2

Original Ice Cream Flavor: Chocolate Gelato with Salted Caramel Pecans Ice Cream Chef: Brett What inspired this recipe? Originally the Take 5 Candy bar's salty mix of chcolate, caramel, and pretzel,...

Daily Scoop: Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream

Uh-oh - this ice cream looks like trouble......

Online Chocolate Source: Chocosphere

Yesterday Faith gave us a few good sources for the chocolate féves that are no doubt in greater demand these days. They really do make the New York Times chocolate chip cookies that much better...

Chocolate Féves for the Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies

Is the perfect chocolate chip cookie this year's No-Knead Bread? And if so, are chocolate féves this year's instant yeast? When the No-Knead Bread recipe came out there was a run on instant y...

Salmonella in Chili Peppers, Chocolate Extinction, and Finding a Cure in Tomatoes
Top food news for July 14-18

Here we are with the weekly food news roundup. Read on ......

Chocolate Technology, Raw Milk, and More Beef Recalls
Top food news for July 7-11

Here we are with the Wednesday food news roundup! Read on ......

Red Rice, Licorice Chocolate, and Violet Mustard: Zingerman's Great Unknowns

Last week we blogged Zingerman's, a deli and purveyor of fine foods in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We really like their homegrown approach and locally-owned flavor, but we also love their excellent taste for...

Northern California Store Review: Oxbow Public Market in Napa

While in Napa last weekend, we visited the new Oxbow Public Market in downtown Napa. Oxbow is a large food hall where everything on sale is food-related in some way; from spices to tea, to wine and k...

Weekend Meditation: Salty-Sweet

As I write this, I am slowly savoring a bite of Mo’s Bacon Chocolate Bar by the amazingly innovative Vosges Haute Chocolate. The initial hit of rich dark milk chocolate is followed by hints of smok...

Chocolate's Savory Side: Don't Wait for Dessert

Our lunch with Jacques Torres at the All Candy Expo in Chicago highlighted chocolate's savory side with dishes like a fruit and mixed green salad with a white chocolate-orange vinaigrette. Quite tasty...

Jacques Torres' Chocolate Tasting Tips

We spent yesterday snacking our way through a sea of goodies at the All Candy Expo in Chicago. As if that weren't enough of a treat, we also had the chance to hear legendary pastry chef Jaques Torres ...

Tea and Cacao: Farms of Hawaii

It's Garden Month, which means that we're not only looking at our own gardens but the larger fields and farms of agriculture across the world. We were fascinated by this glimpse of tea and cacao plant...

Chocolate Bloom: Good or Bad?

After our discussion last week about why chocolate seizes, we thought we'd take a look at another one of chocolate's quirks: its tendency to "bloom." And unfortunately, we're not talking about the spr...

Web Resource: iGourmet

We've mentioned before that we love online shopping for gourmet food items. Another of our favorite online resources is iGourmet, who we really like for cheese purchases....

Food Science: Why Chocolate Seizes

We were melting chocolate a while back for some mousse and ran into one of our of our kitchen nightmares. One minute, the melted chocolate was so smooth and velvety that it was hard to resist drinki...

This Weekend In SF: Chocolate Salon

Looking for something sweet to do in San Francisco this weekend? Perhaps you could consider the Chocolate Salon being held on Sunday, April 13, 2008 from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM at Fort Mason Center....

NYC Events: Chocolate Walking Tour, Conference on Food in Schools, Coffee and Tea

It might finally be spring in New York! Today is supposed to be in the high 60s, so naturally we're already looking towards the weekend and hoping for some foodie outings. ...

Baking: Which Chocolate Works Best?

While working on a chocolate recipe for this afternoon, we realized that we generally keep on hand two to four different brands of semi-sweet and bittersweet chocolate. Why so many? Rather than stic...

Hot or Not: Herbs With Chocolate?

It started with a Pierre Marcolini chocolate. Two weeks ago, we tried his dark chocolate ganache infused with thyme and orange peels. And though the idea seemed strange, it really worked – the choco...

Fog City News: San Francisco Market Review

One of our favorite places in San Francisco to shop for artisan chocolate is Fog City News. From the outside, it looks like an ordinary newsstand, but step inside, and it's a treasure trove of fine...

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