Chocolate Love for Tu B’Av

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Tu B’Av may ring as French to your ear, but it’s actually in Hebrew: It’s a Jewish mini-holiday similar to Valentine’s Day. In 2018 it will begin in the evening of Thursday, 26 July, to be celebrated for 24 hours. Get into the Tu B’Av spirit: Shimmy in white & have some chocolate.  Tu B’Av

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Learn To Speak Like A Chocolatier

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If you truly love chocolate, why not become a real expert? In this month’s post Ika will provide you with the vocabulary professional chocolatiers use. Interestingly, the most important chocolate terms start with the letter C! Here are the 7 most useful terms you need to know in order to speak like a chocolate expert:

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Chocolate Tourism Should Be About Terroir

  1. Terroir isn’t just about wine making In some ways, chocolate is like wine. The aroma, texture and taste of both pleasurable products depend much on the Terroir. Like wine, chocolate may be impacted by how it’s been grown: Location, geology and climate of the place. In fact it’s among the few products with a

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