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

Published by 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.

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Food Art: Potato Pears, food photography by SandeeA

Published by Thursday, October 13, 2011 Permalink 0

SandeeA is a food photographer and stylist. She also writes her column Food Play, which includes many playful food items such as this.

She runs the popular website La Receta de la Felicidad. Click here to learn how to make the potato pears.

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Chocolate News: It’s chocolate week, & here are some exciting chocolate adventures around the world

Published by Tuesday, October 11, 2011 Permalink 0

by Jonell Galloway

This is one of the best and most comprehensive lists I’ve seen about high-quality chocolate adventures around the world. I want to go them all!

Click here to read the entire article.

The evidence continues to build a factual basis that dark chocolate is actually good for you. See the related articles:

  • Chocolate – the miracle drug?
  • Chocolate Week Heaven
  • High Chocolate Consumption Linked To Lower Stroke Risk In Females

And in Peru, they’re still finding new varieties of chocolate. Exciting future for chocoholics! Click here to read.

 

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Food Art: Arctic Roll and Berry Buddies, food photography by Sandeea

Published by Monday, October 10, 2011 Permalink 0

You can find the bilingual Spanish-English recipes for these photos at La Receta de la Felicidad. To see more of her photography, look under the tab Food Art, SandeeA.

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A Brief History of the Oreo Emboss

Published by Friday, October 7, 2011 Permalink 0
Oreo Double Stuff Cookie

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interestingly, when the Oreo was first introduced by Nabisco in 1912, it used a much more organic wreath for its emboss, later augmented with two pairs of turtledoves in a 1924 redesign.

To follow the evolution of the Oreo cookie’s embossing, click here.

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  • Food Art: Giant Oreo cake, food photography by SandeeA

 

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Food Art: On the Subject of Stew, food photography by Meeta Khurana Wolff

Published by Thursday, October 6, 2011 Permalink 0

See more of Meeta’s portfolio at Meeta K. Wolff. She runs the popular blog What’s for Lunch Honey?

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Switzerland: Coop’s Pro Montagna Label: 5 Years of Protecting Traditional Swiss Food Products

Published by Friday, September 30, 2011 Permalink 0

Switzerland: Coop’s Pro Montagna Label: 5 Years of Protecting Traditional Swiss Food Products

Please join us on Sunday, October 2nd, at the Expat Expo Geneva, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Palexpo, Hall 7. We’d love to meet our readers and make our contact more personal.

We’ll have booth No. B8 against the well, and one of our most popular authors, Rosa Mayland of the column Rosa’s Musings,will be present.

Click here for all the details.

Hope to see you there!

Jonell Galloway, Editor of The Rambling Epicure

 

 

 

 

 

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Food Art: Homemade Granola, food photography by Meeta Khurana Wolff

Published by Thursday, September 29, 2011 Permalink 0

See more food photo compositions at Meeta K. Wolff or in our Food Art category. Meeta runs the highly popular food blog What’s for Lunch Honey?

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Food Art: Sumptuous Deep-fried Goat Cheese, food photography by Steve Homer

Published by Wednesday, September 28, 2011 Permalink 0

Our ongoing series of tapas photos from our latest food artist discovery: food photographer Steve Homer of Sabor de Almería in the southeast of Spain.

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Simon Eats: Simon de Swaan Eats his Way through Spain, a Documentary Photo Show, Part 2

Published by Friday, September 23, 2011 Permalink 0
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