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Food News Daily: Latest food news and trends from around the world, December 15, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Thursday, December 15, 2011 Permalink 0

,Super Healthy Chocolate Orange Cake with Rich Chocolate Frosting (Vegan + GF), Wine Books Worth Reading, Wine Books Worth Reading, , Choose Healthier Meat – Whole Living Daily : Whole Living, Saul’s Deli Dreams Up a Latke Truck for Hanukkah – Food Trucks, Magret de pato con mermelada especiada de mango, The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (read review in comment section), and much more.

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Food Play: Volcán de queso / molten cheesecake

Published by sandeea + Thursday, December 1, 2011 Permalink 0

de SandeeA

Coulant de queso

La culpa fue del coulant, volcán, paradise, fondant,… como lo queráis llamar. Os habríais librado de mí, si un día no hubiera preparado este postre mágico de chocolate con total éxito (y asombro, por qué no decirlo) de todos a mi alrededor. Hasta ese momento, mis experiencias en la cocina habían ido desde lo meramente “comestible” a lo gravemente perjudicial para la salud. Calcular medidas (para paella por ejemplo, un vaso de arroz seco por persona), dejar los filetes más tiesos que el codo de un Playmobil, y los garbanzos duros como los rodetes de la dama de Elche eran mis especialidades. Pensaba que la cocina, aunque me atraía bastante, no era lo mío. Y de repente, un se cruzó en mi vida la receta de coulant de Michel Bras.

Rosa’s Musings: Sachertorte, The Pride Of Vienna

Published by Jonell Galloway + Friday, November 4, 2011 Permalink 0

by Rosa Mayland

Colors burst in wild explosions
Fiery, flaming shades of fall
All in accord with my pounding heart
Behold the autumn-weaver
In bronze and yellow dying
Colors unfold into dreams
In hordes of a thousand and one
The bleeding
Unwearing their masks to the last notes of summer
Their flutes and horns in nightly swarming
Colors burst within
Spare me those unending fires
Bestowed upon the flaming shades of fall.
– Dark Tranquility, With the Flaming Shades of Fall

Each season has a significant impact on our behaviour and spirit. All four seasons impart a special mood as well as a certain rhythm to our existence. The explanation for that is very simple: no plant, animal or human being can break loose from the forceful and capricious powers of the Universe to which they are submitted and depend on. We just have to accept the fact that there is a greater plan (I’m not talking about God, but about the force behind the entirety of the cosmos) and that most of the time it completely escapes our understanding. There is no other choice for us than to cooperate with the elements in order to benefit from them. Fighting against them will get you nowhere. Save your vigor and be in harmony with them…

Halloween News: more healthy and ghoulish treats and recipes

Published by Jonell Galloway + Thursday, October 27, 2011 Permalink 0

by Jonell Galloway

MSNBC Today Show’s nutritionist Joy Bauer says the average trick or treater comes home with the equivalent of 10 cups of sugar and 10 lbs. of butter. When you put it in those terms, you realize if you want to contribute to the health of future generations, there are strategies for choosing healthier options. An easy-to-implement video full of common sense tips for choosing your treats.

Here’s some great Halloween photography to get you in the spirit.

Halloween is Here gives loads of recipes for complete Halloween meals, for both adults and children.

If you’re set on staying green when it comes to Halloween costumes, here are some more creative ideas.

Shine! Yahoo offers lots of healthy savory and sweet Halloween recipes, such as chocolate-covered fruit, as does Family Health and Nutrition.

If you’re planning a Halloween lunch party for your children, here are some simple ideas for giving a ghoulish look to sandwiches, fruit and other ordinary fare.

David Downie: Part 1 of his take on Salon du Chocolat in Paris

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, October 24, 2011 Permalink 0

by David Downie

Choc Around the Clock in Paris at the Salon du Chocolat

The annual chocolate feast, fete and orgy known here in Paris as the Salon du Chocolat takes over the city this year from October 20 to 24. If you’re not in Paris already, get here fast. There might not be any chocolate left if you arrive on the last day.

It has been remarked (by yours truly) that if you toss out a euro these days it will probably land on a Paris chocolate shop or pâtisserie with a celebrated chef bent on titillating his customers’ taste buds while dazzling their eyes and lightening their wallets.

No other city, not even Brussels, has as much fine chocolate as Paris. Paris is the chocolate capital of the world.

While the Swiss and Belgians weren’t looking, Paris stole their milk cows and became the swaggering global capital of chic chocolate.

All challengers to this claim please take one of our chocolate tours and then decide whether to proceed with the duel.

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Chocolate News: Paris Salon du Chocolat Roundup

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, October 24, 2011 Permalink 0

by Jonell Galloway

This year’s fashion show at the Salon du Chocolat in Paris was probably the most stunning and creative to date. The fashion designers gave a burlesque atmosphere to the entire show, and there was a full array of top top models to show their creations to their best advantage.

I’m melting! Chocolate catwalk show comes a cropper after model’s dress falls off. The Daily Mail has one of the most complete coverages of the chocolate dress fashion show, with a full photo show, including the several shots of Karine Ferri’s dress as it gradually desconstructed as she walked down the runway.

Trendhunter show a great closeup of the gladiator bikini that 2005 Miss France Cindy Fabre paraded.

Japan was the featured chocolate country this year, and Japanese Susumu Koyama, 47, was even named “Best Foreign Chocolatier” — winning out over top masters from celebrated chocolate-making nations like Belgium and Switzerland.

The Telegraph has a great photo of Anca Radici, with a close-up of her chocolate stockings and shoes.

ShoppingBlog shows some highlights in video, including the deconstructing dress.

Good photos to be seen on Out and About in Paris as well.

The show ends tonight, so if you’re in Paris, you still have time to pay a visit.

Paris Salon du Chocolat 2011: Edible Chocolate Dresses for Inauguration

Published by Jonell Galloway + Thursday, October 20, 2011 Permalink 0

by Jonell Galloway

So the Paris chocolate show, the Salon du Chocolat — undoubtedly the most cherished in the world — is officially open to the public, from October 20 to 24, 2011.

More than 800 chefs have created some 700 recipes to the delight of young and old alike, and pastry chefs will be demonstrating their master creations for all to see.

The the 17th Salon du Chocolat was officially inaugurated last night, and started out with bang: the initial bang of the fashion show, made up of chocolate dresses. The fashion show will be shown every day at 5 p.m. The photo above shows just a sample of the amazing creations that adorned the runway. This year, the dresses include creations by France’s best chocolatiers, as well as by up-and-coming fashion designers, and the Godmother of French fashion, Chantal Thomass.

Chocolate News: Paris Salon du Chocolat to be Inaugurated Tonight

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, October 19, 2011 Permalink 0

Click here to watch the Paris Salon du Chocolat fashion show 2010 opening. Loads of dresses in chocolate, decorated in chocolate. Only in Paris!

Chocolate News: eat as much chocolate as you can now, it’s disappearing, chocolate art, etc.

Published by Jonell Galloway + Friday, October 14, 2011 Permalink 0

by Jonell Galloway

Better eat all the chocolate you can now. Seems global warming is going to hit West Africa, and it will affect chocolate production. Chocolate will only be for the rich in the not-so-far-off future.

Chocolate art in all its forms: photo exhibition of odd chocolate creations.

Chocolate is the star at Le Cordon Bleu Australia this month, and they will be exhibiting October 19 to 21, 2011, at the Paris Expo, held at the Porte de Versailles.

Roundup of chocolate events in Britain’s chocolate week.

Psychology Today says the feel-good chocolate effect only lasts 3 minutes.

Check out BBC Good Food’s wealth of chocolate recipes. There’s something to everyone’s taste, and recipes go from easy to difficult.

Just discovered: Death by Chocolate, by Alan Nolan, a comic writer.