MetaFilter posts tagged with chocolate

World's next top brands set to rise in the east

nam3d — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:09:02 -0800

The world's next Coca-Cola or Starbucks is more likely to emerge from Asia, the Middle East or South America They comprise Juan Valdez Café, a Colombian coffee chain; Almarai, a Saudi dairy and fruit-juice company based in Riyadh; Patchi, a Lebanese boutique chocolate chain; ChangYu, China's biggest wine producer; and United Spirits, India's largest liquor group, which owns Scotch whisky Whyte and Mackay.

The Chocolate Chip Cookie Bowl Sundae

SansPoint — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:17:44 -0800

Ice cream sundaes are good, but what if you could eat the bowl? On a suggestion from his son, Michael Ruhlman, food writer and critic, figures out how to make a chocolate chip cookie ice cream bowl... and tells you how to do it too.

Naughtly, but not that naughty

Brandon Blatcher — Sun, 17 May 2009 21:05:58 -0800

Q: You like chocolate? You are a person who likes the chocolate finger that we are currently testing?
A: Yes! I am! I like chocolate!
Q: You like chocolate! In fact, you are a person who likes chocolate as much as a company likes money!
A: YES I LIKE CHOCOLATE AS IF IT WERE MY PROFESSION!! TELL ME MORE ABOUT IT!
Q: YOU ENJOY THIS FLING YOU SEXY CONSUMER. Shamelessly cribbed from lemuria

These Lists Are Evil, But Yum

netbros — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 07:26:56 -0800

Are you entertaining guests for Easter dinner? Don't forget the dessert. Here are the 50 Best Dessert Recipes. Chocolate lovers in your family? No problem. The 50 Best Chocolate Desserts. Maybe you're partial to cake. Okay, Mom's Best Cake Recipes. Here's to yum.

When No One Understands You, Chocolate Is There

netbros — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:28:44 -0800

According to legend, Einstein was eating chocolate when he came upon the theory of relativity. These sites are all about chocolate and candy in general. Chocolate Obsession. Hyperbole? Maybe. Just a little. Ok, a lot. Chocolate does have a lot to offer, though. It is a one of a kind food characterized by a truly unique and intense flavor. The idea of Jim's Chocolate Mission came after a discussion with friends about the greatest chocolate bar. Was is the Wispa? Galaxy? Clark? The Chocolate Review is most likely to review English chocolate because that's where they're from, but they also do imports. No discussion of chocolate would be complete without a little history, so here's the Chocolate History Time Line. For 4000 years, chocolate… like gold, has had a universal appeal. Candyblog has meticulously photographed and documented reviews of candy from around the world. And the occasional other sweet adventures. Open your mouth, expand your mind. At Candy Addict you can find articles and reviews like the Top 10 Simpson's Candy Moments, or the 10 Grossest Candies. Just remember the 12-Step Chocoholic Program. Never be more than 12 steps away from chocolate. It's a helluva lot cheaper than therapy.

Grace Jones in chocolate

joeclark — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:15:21 -0800

Grace Jones in chocolate. That isn’t a clever illustration of an assembly line of Grace Jones heads on the cover of her new album, Hurricane. Those are real chocolate Grace Jones heads made from 16 moulds of her head and body.

Tim Tam Slam

ninazer0 — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:43:36 -0800

It's a bickie, not a cookie. Named after the winner of the 1958 Kentucky Derby, it's Australia's equivalent to the iconic Oreo. How do they make them? How do you eat them? Tim Tams! They almost make up for the Vegemite.

Another Man Done Gone

chuckdarwin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:19:59 -0800

Carolina Chocolate Drops rock the piedmont. The Carolina Chocolate Drops are a group of young African-American stringband musicians that have come to together to play the rich tradition of fiddle and banjo music in Carolinas’ piedmont. Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson both hail from the green hills of the North Carolina Piedmont while Dom Flemons is native to sunny Arizona. Jools Holland performance.

Beta-testing Chocolate

kaszeta — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:43:33 -0800

What happens when a former NASA software engineer and a co-founder of Wired magazine decide to start up a chocolate company? TCHO Ventures is trying to make single-bean varietal chocolate varieties that best express the component flavors of chocolate, which they've identified as "chocolate", "nutty", "fruity", "floral", "earthy", and "citrus". To test this concept, they've been "beta-testing" their chocolate in plain brown wrappers, and collecting feedback. The result is good chocolate, with just a hint of viral marketing.

Do you have a little chocolate craving?

adamvasco — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:01:37 -0800

A brief history of chocolate slavery: That Chocolate is an oligopoly might surprise a few people. Chocolate's Bittersweet Economy (pdf) shows that seven years after the industry had agreed to abolish child labour, little progress has been made. Cross-border Migration of Working Children has still been left out of Harkin-Engel Cocoa Protocol Process. Bitter Chocolate Reflects on the politics of cocoa and chocolate. With Halloween approaching you might consider a Fair Trade approach to Trick or Treat. (If Chocolate slavery doesn't make you throw up a little maybe this will.)

Schockoladespielzeugkombinationseier

tellurian — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:52:28 -0800

Sold all over the world but banned in the US in 1997 under a law passed in 1938. Kinder Surprise are now under attack in Germany. No magicodes for you!

Candy bar cross-section ID quiz

mr_crash_davis — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:21:34 -0800

Identify the candy bar by its cross-section.

From beans to bars

rmd1023 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:26:42 -0800

Steve Gisselbrecht writes about his experiments taking chocolate from beans to bars at home. One of the main barriers for the home chocolatier is the lack of home conching machines. Steve also has a write-up on tempering chocolate, which is the step after conching. This is really going from raw beans to full-on prepared chocolate, not like the claims of this company discussed previously on the blue. As a bit of trivia, his husband was mentioned on the blue previously

Art Good Enough To Eat

fearfulsymmetry — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:12:46 -0800

Smartie Art by Prudence Emma Straite; who previously has made works of Dali (and whole rooms) from chocolate and the Pope (and the Coliseum) from pizza. (Radio 4 doc - real audio) (PS. The blue Smartie is back)

Love is a lottery

asok — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:57:01 -0800

Lupercalia is a festival that probably pre-dates Rome, and which later became known as St. Valentine's day. It had everything; sacrifice, cake, nudity, spanking and a love lottery. What do we get? A card. If we are lucky. But, who was Valentine? Did Chaucer make the whole thing up? Lupercalia was held in a month which became known as February after the strips of goat meat (februa) used to stike people to bring good luck, banish bad spirits and promote fertility and easier childbirth. February used to be later in the year, so running about Rome wearing nothing but a goat skin would not have been such a freezing experience. Since the development of sweet chocolate, this particular tradition has declined in popularity somewhat. j/k Valentine was removed from the liturgical calendar in 1969 as the Catholic church decided there wasn't enough certainty about the 'real' St. Valentine (!?!). As seen on Metafilter.

Amusing (if Messy) Stop-Motion Valentine's Day Ad

dbarefoot — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:47:31 -0800

An entertaining stop-motion animation from an AdHack (a DIY-ad startup) user. The audio is slightly unsafe for work, and it gets a bit weird and, uh, extra-chocolatey near the end, but it's certainly worth 30 seconds out of your Valentine's Day.

And they've got antioxidants!

rouftop — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:14:26 -0800

Last minute valentine idea: Chocolate Ganache Truffles. "You'd have to go a long way to screw it up." (video, expect an interstitial)

One Gorilla Drumming

fearfulsymmetry — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:57:05 -0800

It's an advert for chocolate. It's a man in a gorilla suit drumming to a track by Philip Collins Ltd. It's been very popular. It's won awards. It's been spoofed. And it's been mashed-up... some bad (Metalica (sic), ACDC, Guns and Roses), some good (Bonnie Tyler, Subsource, A Skillz, Bon Jovi, Deep Purple, Nirvana) and some utterly sublime ('Enders, Bodyrockers, Cameo). But great adverts don't always equal great sales. Bonus: Monkey Drummer. (Previously)

Chocolade Haas

GuyZero — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:12:02 -0800

Chocolate Bunny. From artist Sander Plug.

Of Beer And Chocolate

amyms — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:07:09 -0800

Chocolate and the Beer of the Ancients. New archaeological evidence suggests that primitive beer brewers were the first to discover the goodness of chocolate.

Homemade Halloween Candy

AceRock — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:34:16 -0800

Make your own Halloween candy bars. The take on a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup is superb. However, to temper chocolate properly, you'll need an accurate kitchen scale. The behind-the-scenes video is pretty cool.

Tay it ain't so

digiFramph — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:43:11 -0800

Chocolate Rain. From Bach to Tupac, you can always expect the unexpected from Tay Zonday. Mr. Zonday has experienced some fame as of late, thanks to shock jocks Opie & Anthony. Tay is quite the original artist and is, shockingly, unsigned. So, if you know any A&R guys that are looking for new talent, please let them know! My personal favorite is his karaoke cover of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up". Although, the Darth Vader remix of Chocolate Rain is pretty friggin' sweet, too.

Eat Han First

Stynxno — Mon, 14 May 2007 07:24:54 -0800

Carbonite Chocolate Han Goodness

“If you come back and live in my factory, you can have all the Cacao Beans you want!

chuckdarwin — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:24:03 -0800

Europeans love to bash American chocolate - especially Hershey's - almost as much as the like to bash, erm, America in general (apparently, it tastes like doggie treats). Recently, Big Chocolate have asked the FDA if they can stop using real cocoa butter in the chocolate-making process, which can only make it taste even worse. I often wonder how many so-called chocoholics know that most of the chocolate they eat was probably picked by slave labour in West Africa. Child slaves, even. Meh, they probably don't care: research indicates that chocolate is 'four times better than kissing'. Never trust a junkie.

sweet dreams around the world

nickyskye — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:11:18 -0800

The art of sugar: flowers, lace, birds, sculpture, cubes, gardens, construction site, houses, paintings, underwear. In Britain. In Mexico sugar skulls are created to celebrate the Day of the Dead. Amezaiku is a Japanese candy craft and wagashi the art of Japanese confection.