Coffee & Reading the morning paper

• Local/DC: Happy Hanukkah to everyone celebrating the festival of lights! Big news! Laderach Swiss chocolatier is coming to Union Station in 2021 🙂
• Trending: Everyone is making chocolate charcuterie boards? Count us in! Need some tips? Click that link.
• Trending: An Olaf hot chocolate bomb! How cute.
• Trending: Our article on Beyond Good Chocolate is trending this week! Gotta love a good lemur. Wonder if it’s because they were recently in the news for traceability, here? 🙂 Have you tried Beyond Good?
• “Premium” chocolate is winning during the pandemic.

Quote for the weekend

A vision that comes from love is deeply nourishing and interdependent.

LaPorte

Some chocolate dessert

• Holiday-related recipe: We want to try and make these chocolate marshmallows 🙂
• Holiday shopping ideas: “Merry chocolate!” Still need some ideas?
  • This $21 festive box of milk and dark chocolate squares by Venchi looks lovely.
  • This $19 Christmas tree bauble filled with sea salt caramel truffles by Domori is gorgeous.
  • This $175 selection of handmade dark and milk chocolate pralines by Amedei looks like luxury.

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your Coffee shop outfit

• At your home coffee shop, might we suggest one of these supremely unique slippers? We’ve never seen such a vibrant collection.
• Wrap yourself in this cozy throw as you sip your brew, and wear this triple moon choker necklace.
• Maybe you prefer one of these woven bowls in your coffee shop aesthetic?

Have a lovely weekend.

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