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How to Prepare Ceremonial Cacao and Practice a Cacao Ritual
Cacao, like ceremonial matcha, has a ceremonial grade. What exactly is ceremonial cacao, how do you prepare it? What do you need to know to get started with a cacao ritual?
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Check Your Local Shop for Chequessett Chocolate; This Cape Cod Craft Chocolate Company Makes Divine Bars
Once in a while, an experience of wonderment happens to us with chocolate. And it definitely happened when we saw the Chequessett Chocolate bar packaging, molding and then also tasted the cocoa. Chequessett chocolate is incredible.
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Simply Sleep Walk into New Year’s 2022 with Dark Matter Coffee x La Rifa’s Delicious “Blanco Jaguar” Chocolate Bars
This "Blanco Jaguar" Sleep Walk chocolate bar surprises you. It's very lively. Like a growling jaguar, this chocolate bar will grab your attention and leave you in awe of its powerful beauty.
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Top Ten Places to Find Delicious Hot Chocolate Drinks in Washington, DC
There are numerous articles online that list "top hot chocolate spots in DC," but none of them match up with this unique master list! Explore our picks for best hot cocoa across Georgetown, Shaw, Dupont Circle, Cleveland Park, Downtown, and more.
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Cuna de Piedra “Cradle of Stone” Chocolate from Mexico Perfectly Celebrates the Culture and Craft of Cacao
We first saw Cuna de Piedra bars at The Chocolate House in DC and felt immediately attracted to their packaging. Clean, minimalistic and calming, the packaging design drew us in and spoke to us, sweetly. We knew that we wanted to try the brand from that moment. Listening to an interview with Cuna de Piedra founders on Instagram only solidified our trust in the company. Alas, a purchase was quickly made! We chose Cuna de Piedra's 73% Mexican Cacao from Comalcalco, Tabasco.
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2021’s Best Craft Chocolate Advent Calendars
October doesn't just mean Halloween or Day of the Dead; it's also time to order your chocolate advent calendars! This year, we found the absolute best and most beautiful chocolate advent calendars by top chocolatiers of fine and craft chocolate around the globe. Our list highlights 5 brands that have beautiful options: Vosges, Playin Chocolate, Hotel Chocolat, Harry & David and Zotter Chocolates. Which one is your favorite?
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Chocolate Heir Helped Create One of the Best Vacuum Cleaners?: The Amazing Story of Fry and Dyson
What do chocolate and vacuum cleaners have in common? Turns out, if you're Dyson, quite a lot. Jeremy Fry, as in Fry's Chocolate, helped Dyson to become the inventor that he is today.
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The Luxurious Chocolate Landscape of LetterPress Chocolate
The experience that this LetterPress Chocolate 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.
