I love chocolate. I love movies. I especially love eating chocolate at the movies. The Library of Mini Exotic Candy Bars from Vosges Haut Chocolat is a special treat to eat in a movie theatre because the darkened environment enhances the flavors. Vosges, an artisan chocolatier, has a motto: see…smell…snap…taste…feel. Each of these minimally packaged…
Katrina Markoff, renowned Chocolatier and founder of Vosges Haut-Chocolat, has done it again. With her Luxe Champagne + Exotic Truffle Collection, you can gift the one you love with perfectly paired wines with truffles. Price is $325.00. Their most luxurious gift box includes Krug Champagne and their signature Exotic Truffle Collection. Make a statement of…
One of my favorite artisan chocolate makers is Scharffen Berger. I visit their booth often at the Ferry Building Marketplace in San Francisco on my ferry ride back to Marin County. Now, they’re hosting a recipe contest where the Grand Prize is $5 grand. Just show them your spirit of adventure by choosing a type…
Not sure if this qualifies for one of your “five a day”, but what the heck… Four pieces of Michael Recchiuti’s favorite flavor combo include tarragon leaves infused in extra-bitter chocolate ganache, then topped with a sliver of candied grapefruit. This artisan chocolate expert mans a store at the Ferry Building Plaza in San Francisco….
My favorite artisan chocolate maker in the whole wide world, Vosges Haut-Chocolate, has just created something that you have to taste to believe how delish it can be… Crisp, buttery, compulsively irresistible Applewood Smoked bacon mixed with a sprinkling of Alder Salt and Deep Milk Chocolate. The owner and founder, Katrina, started playing with this…
If you haven’t ordered your lover some Valentine’s Chocolates yet, you’ve got about 36 hours until you’ll be sleeping in the dog house. Here’s a thought: Call Recchiuti Confections, a gourmet chocolate company with a retail store in the Ferry Building in San Francisco. You can order romance, passion and desire in this dreamy triple-layer…
“Making chocolate is a wonderful alchemy of temperature, ingredients, patience and sometimes Luck, says Michael Recchiuti, founder of Recchiuti Confections. “It’s about inspiration and practice, practice, practice. “I love chocolate,” he continues. “I delight in the perfect snap of a fine chocolate bar, in the tobacco notes of a rate varietal and the sheen of…