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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Cacao Tree-hugging: Ika’s Introduction to The Healing Effect of Cacao Trees
This month we are taking a more spiritual path into the cacao trees plantations. If you still haven’t caught up with the Tree Bathing – “Shinrin-yuku” trend, here is your opportunity to plunge in, and also to learn more about the magnificent trees that give us chocolate. For thousands of years, cacao has been considered a sacred
Continue reading »Learn To Speak Like A Chocolatier
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:
Continue reading »A Year of Chocolate Celebrations Worldwide
How about a trip around the world, to visit chocolate festivals? It seems like there is no place on the globe where people don’t love and celebrate chocolate. Even if you just feel like browsing festivals’ photos online, we’ve created a long list of chocolate events worldwide, that are worthy of entering your bucket list.
Continue reading »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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