Author: Delmar Germyn

Homemade chocolates can be fun to make. With microwaves in almost every home now, the art of melting chocolate wafers without burning them has been perfected. Adding fruit essences to the melted ooey-gooey-ness personalizes them, then pouring your

Author: Elizabeth Smith

Is all the chocolate from your kids’ Trick-or-Treat bags gone already? And not because your children ate it all? If you are anything like me, the chocolate candies are nowhere to be found because you have relentlessly snatched them from your unkno

Author: Jaynne Nichols

Is chocolate an important thing to include in your diet? Most of us are very willing to make chocolate a regular feature in our diet. In fact, people have implied that chocolate may have health benefits as far back as the 17th and 18th centuries.

Author: Shalin Popat

We humans are strange indeed. People spend so much energy in an attempt to look and feel younger, that they so often miss the fact that they are using so much precious time doing so. Could the answer to retaining youth be right under our very nose

Author: Ivy Mills

Chocolate has been viewed as a global delicacy for centuries, but only recently, it has been discovered that chocolate contains an array of phytochemicals, considered highly valuable to our health. Cocoa products, including chocolate, are among so

Author: Gabe Mirkin, M.D.

Will a chocolate bar a day keep heart attacks away?The candy industry keeps trying to convince us that chocolate is a health food by sponsoring and publicizing studies. One of the latest, in the medical journal Hypertension (July, 20

Author: Shalin Popat

Well we all know that Valentines Day is the day of lovers and a day for giving gifts to those you care about but why is chocolate still the most popular gift given on Valentines Day? Why is chocolate is so closely associated with romance?Si

Author: Jane Roseen

A journey through the history of chocolate reveals that this mysterious food has woven its story throughout multiple cultures and continents impacting civilizations culturally, socially, economically and spiritually. A study of the history of choc

Author: Joanna Jones

Do you remember parties and events only a couple of years ago? Parties without chocolate fountains? How did we ever cope without them?!Chocolate Fountains are now the ‘must have’ feature for any party. Weddings, corporate events, product

Author: Paul Cris

Making chocolates is a long process. It starts from harvesting cocoa and finishes with the drying of chocolate. The process begins with,Fermentation: After collecting the cocoa beans and surrounding pulp from the cacao tree the fermentation