Who does not love chocolates? I just love to gorge on chocolates no matter how much extra calories and pounds it add in my body. I just can’t do without them. From the cheapest street ones to the most expensive and exclusive ones, I would like to taste all of them. Recently in news I…
Can you imagine that a pound of a chocolate can cost you about $2,600? Yes, you have read it right a whopping $2600 per pound. I am just trying to imagine how heavenly it will taste once it goes into my mouth, awesome! The chocolates, that we buy and store in fridge to eat it…
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…
It’s the third birthday for Charles Chocolates, my favorite artisan chocolatier — because their store is only a 30-minute drive from my house in the San Francisco Bay Area, because “Chuck” is a terrific guy, and because they let you sample all the most delicious products you want while you’re browsing through their tantalizing array…
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….
C’mon, you knew it was going to happen. Some trends, copy-cats and sequels should just never happen, but sometimes they are the perfect evolution. (Case in point, “Live Free or Die Hard” was even better than the original.) A fine dining establishment provides expert sommeliers to help educate, entice and guide us through often unknown…
Death by Chocolate Slumber Party. Available all year and definitely for the chocoholic! Book three or four of the Fox River Inn B & B’s rooms with your friends for the ultimate lady’s getaway and slumber party. Check in at the Inn in the late morning (yummy personal chocolate treats from Two Sisters in Ottawa…
Vosges Haut-Chocolat, the Chicago-based luxury chocolatier, is thrilled to announce the launch of their first certified organic product, answering the resonating call for a peanut butter treat! Peanut butter concoctions have been on owner Katrina’s mind for years. So she’s finally created a collection of exotic-infused Peanut Butter Bonbons for everyone who loves peanut butter…
In a few more days, we’ll celebrate Mother’s Day. Vosges Haut-Chocolat offers a variety of delicious ways to show Mom you are thinking of her — with hatboxes filled with a mixture of crunchy and gooey comfort foods to towers of exotic chocolates to gift boxes of paired wine and chocolate. • Hatboxes — These…
London Chocolatier Thorntons invited passers-by to tuck into the 14.5ft by 9.5ft (4.4m by 2.9m) edible billboard in Covent Garden, London. The Easter creation, a world first, was made of (860lb) of pure chocolate including 10 chocolate bunnies, 72 giant chocolate eggs and 128 chocolate panels, each weighing 2kg. It was eaten in just three…
“Would you like a side of bling with your chocolates today?” asked the waiter at Le Sefran, located in the Hilton Arc de Triomphe, Paris. The “Paris” Hilton has joined forces with the city’s top jeweler, Maison Paillard, to offer the world’s most expensive dessert: “Let Them Eat Cake” a chocolate confection served with a…