Use different colors of chocolate on the same berry, half and half, or try "tuxedo" strawberries.
By sampling four artisanal brands of chocolate of the same percentage (which can be ordered through Web sites like Chocosphere.com) alongside a bar of your favorite supermarket chocolate, you can build "a database of available chocopleasure".
"Chocolate is of the same quality of wine," says Bill Yosses Bill Yosses, executive pastry chef at New York's Citarella The Restaurant. "It should be informative and amusing".
On Valentine's Day, all those pink greeting cards and heart-shaped boxes of chocolates say the same thing: "I know this is cheesy and undignified, but I agreed to do it anyway because I have a big crush on you".
Inside dope on chocolate Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana.
Sprawling riverside Gipsy recently reopened after a six-month hiatus on Krasny Oktyabr, or Red October, an island opposite the Kremlin that is home to the former chocolate factory complex of the same name.
According to the USDA's Food Composition Databases, the amount of sugar, fat, fiber and calories is practically the same in an oatmeal raisin cookie compared to a chocolate chip cookie of the same size and weight.
The cold hard truth is that businesses will invariably want to explore any potential commercial benefit of more ethical operations, looking at opportunities to "sell" sustainability either by charging a slight premium ("renewable only" energy tariffs) or by outcompeting a rival (two bars of chocolate at the same price, but one is Fairtrade).
There's nothing like two types of chocolate in the same cookie to satisfy your cravings.
You can think of this issue with pressing pills as you would making a batch of chocolate chip cookies: The same number of chocolate chips aren't going to make their way into each individual cookie.
