writings relating coffee & chocolate with design & serenity. based in washington, DC
Good morning from Washington, DC. Yesterday was a nice 60 degree weather day. Time Cupsoul walked around the National Mall, exploring new coffee and chocolate shops in this great city. Time cupsouls -- experiencing them -- are about inspiration and serenity at the same time. It's about finding the quiet moment and receiving some answers, [...]
DC chocolate lovers, you heard it here first! Friends at Harper Macaw just shared that they have a new holiday chocolate bar coming extremely soon! Here's what Time Cupsoul knows for sure...
There's something beautiful about autumn. It's the death of the old and hibernation of thoughts. There's time to decay and time to be reborn. It's all done with grace and as a dance. Leaves float to the ground gently and create a blanket to hug the earth as the cold weather comes. Like a butterfly [...]
The experience that this bar provided is best summed up by the vintage LetterPress "stamp" with the prop plane on the front of their packaging -- a window into a wild, romantic and luxurious world -- all of the key seductive elements of chocolate itself.
Barry Callebaut annouced Tuesday that they have created a new type of chocolate to sit alongside the classic white, milk and dark varieties: ruby chocolate. This is arguably the biggest chocolate/cocoa news in a decade, if not in 80 years...
It happened. Time Cupsoul finally tried Askinosie Chocolate! Askinosie's Dark Chocolate (70% Tanzania) + Crunchy Sugar Crystals & Vanilla Bean bar caught our attention; Askinosie partnered with "pioneering food friends" for a collection of their artisan "CollaBARation Bars," including the ancho chile and pistachio bar with Cafe Pasqual, and a dark chocolate and coffee bean bar [...]
The Back to Human chocolate bar branding seemed only fitting for the solar eclipse this week. What better time to feel as wild, insignificant, whole and alive than a human during a solar eclipse?
This post is dedicated to a dear friend who is returning to Asia in a few days. She loves lemurs from Madagascar.
