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Chocolate Bytes: For the Love of Chocolate

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July 17th, 2008

Have You Stopped Buying Chocolate?

A recent article mentions that the once thought-to-be-immune chocolate market is taking a hit from the weak economy.
It cites the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory in Colorado as its main source, who says they’ve had to cut nearly 60 employees from their already modest workforce.
Have your chocolate buying habits changed? I can tell you mine […]

By Heather -- 2 comments

June 28th, 2008

Scientists Unlocking the Chocolate Genome

Scientists are still spending time on chocolate, except this time around it’s not to tell us that it’s bad this week, good the next! Apparently they’re analyzing the more than 400 million parts of the cacao bean in an effort to help diminishing crops and possibly make chocolate taste better.
The dissection of the genome began […]

By Heather -- 2 comments

June 9th, 2008

Lindt Launches Excellence Chili Bar

I was contacted last week about trying out a new bar from Lindt, the Lindt Excellence Chili Bar. I excitedly responded that I’d love to, and then sat back and thought about it. I realized I had never tried a chili-infused chocolate of any kind - solid or liquid - even though it’s said to […]

By Heather -- 3 comments

May 20th, 2008

Horror on the Highway

This just is not the week for Oreos.
(Before I go on, let me reassure you that the driver escaped unharmed and there were no other injuries reported.)
So that being said, what a tragedy. As you can see, a semi hauling 20,000 pounds of ill-fated Oreos overturned on a freeway in Illinois yesterday morning.
They’re not […]

By Heather -- 0 comments

May 18th, 2008

“New” Chocolate Biscuits Baffle Brits

I am so amused by this story: The Oreo - an American treat staple since 1912 - has just this month been launched in Great Britain, and some Brits don’t know what to make of it!
Apparently it’s too sweet, doesn’t hold up well in tea (most Brits have never seen a biscuit [cookie] dipped […]

By Heather -- 3 comments

May 12th, 2008

Could Food Dyes Actually Protect Against Cancer?

Everyone remembers the red dye cancer scare from the early 90’s and the subsequent bags of redless M&M’s or cans of cherry-less fruit cocktail.
It was found that large amounts of it caused cancer in lab rats, but as more research was done it was determined that small amounts of it were safe and the […]

By Heather -- 3 comments

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