Gray sky days call for hot cocoa, and even better, hot cocoa with a kick! This one pictured we made at home with Wilbur’s Breakfast Cocoa, our favorite cocoa for baking and hot chocolate-making, from Lititz PA! We also added some chili powder. Spicy hot cocoa seems to be our vice this year, and we [...]
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Dept. Of Questionable Headlines: “Kraft Creams Cadbury For New Philadelphia Spread”
Aired January 27th, 2012 on Cheese and Chocolate.1 CommentOver in England, Philadelphia Cream Cheese (which has no connection to the city other than bearing our name) will be combining with Cadbury (both owned by Kraft) to create a Nutella-like spread. A similar product is already on shelves in Italy and Germany, and there’s one with the same general idea available in America, though [...]
Ah, the checkout line. It’s where both nightmarish and amazing things happen, and crazy things wind up in your shopping basket. This week’s grocery store find is The Dark Chocolate Lover’s Chocolate Bar from Trader Joe’s. Today is perfect for rainy day smores! Over the stove of course. This bar is 85% Columbian Cacao “from [...]
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Phoodie Holiday Gift Idea #2: Chocolate Scrapple
Aired November 18th, 2011 on Chocolate and Holidays.0 CommentsThere are many foods that people quickly associate with Philadelphia, but perhaps the one with the most amount of resistance from the population is Scrapple. More infamous than famous, the “what is even in that” quality of scrapple often sends out-of-towners and locals alike in a bit of a tizzy. Fortunately for everyone, Chocolate Scrapple [...]
Garces Trading Company Chocolate Bars Are Here To Make You Feel Better About Eating Chocolate
Aired November 1st, 2011 on Chocolate and Jose Garces.1 CommentYou know, most people unveil their chocolate treats before Halloween, but next Wednesday, Jose Garces‘ JG Domestic (2929 Arch Street) will debut their new chocolate bars. Made in partnership with Éclat Chocolates, the bars will be of the dark, milk, and white chocolate variety, and will sell for $8 each. The four chocolate bars are: [...]
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Devil’s Den Hosts Chocolate Indulgence Night
Aired February 16th, 2011 on Beer, Chocolate and Events.0 CommentsDevil’s Den, on 11th and Ellsworth, is offering a chance to get the best chocolate you could ask for (in beer form) around Valentine’s Day: Ommegang’s Chocolate Indulgence. The pub is hosting an Ommegang Chocolate Indulgence Night in light of the past holiday this Thursday, February 17. Devil’s Den will have a few of Ommegang [...]
Last Minute Gifts: Local Chocolate!
Aired December 22nd, 2010 on Chocolate, Locavore and christmas.0 CommentsNeed a last minute gift for so-and-so, who you didn’t know was coming this year’s Christmas shindig? We’ve got you covered, with the following local chocolatiers in Philadelphia and the surrounding whose stores are choc-full (hah!) of chocolates for the holidays – from the basic to the breathtaking. There’s gotta be one close to you. [...]
5th Day Of Christmas Cookies: Peanut Butter Kisses
Aired December 17th, 2010 on Bakery, Chocolate, Peanut Butter, Sweets and christmas.0 CommentsOh hells yea. We weren’t gonna have a baking bonanza and forget about these babies. I used to make these with my roommate in college, and, between the two of us and all of the kids on our floor who would come wandering towards the lovely smell coming from our door, we’d manage to finish [...]
When you think of eating local, the last thing that may come to mind is chocolate. But John Doyle and Kira Baker have been making handcrafted chocolates that source local products since 2000. John & Kira’s website shows an array of tasty flavors such as Lavender Honey and Tangy Orange and Garden Rosemary which have [...]
DO WANT: John and Kira’s Root Chocolates
Aired February 24th, 2010 on Chocolate, Food Porn, Liquor and Locavore.0 CommentsMade from Root Liqueur, cinnamon, anise, vanilla and citrus with dark chocolate ganache, John and Kira’s Root Chocolates might have slipped by you over the holidays when they debuted on the Art In The Age/Root website. But dear God, we’re not gonna let them pass us by again. According to the Piazza’s Facebook page, they’ll [...]
