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Breaking News: New Holiday Chocolate Bar from Harper Macaw, DC
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...
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K’UL Chocolate from Minnesota is a Winner
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 cocoon, the beauty of the process is hidden until it’s ready for soft, unfolding exposure. Fall brings strong desire for hot chocolate and cozy blankets in front of a camp fire. Camp fires…
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The New “Ruby Chocolate”: What Is Ruby Chocolate? Is Ruby Cocoa Real?
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...
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Back to Human Dark Chocolate – Total Eclipse of the Taste Buds
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?
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La Naya Chocolate: Delicious Experience for Taste-buds and Thoughts Alike
It goes without question that La Naya's chocolate bars have the most distinct and beautiful chocolate bar shape/mold in the current market. Reminiscent of a geodes or a cut jewel, this bar's shape is unforgettable.
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Magia Piura Peruvian ‘White Bean’ Cacao
The Magia Piura brand attracted Time Cupsouls' attention for a couple of reasons: 1) the branding has a celestial and tarot card/mystical element which makes it intriguing 2) the chocolate maker explained how some of the bars use white cacao, a special variety of cocoa and 3) this was the brand's first USA tour.
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Jean Philippe Pâtisserie: Chocolate
Jean-Philippe Patisserie is a decadent pâtisserie owned by Chef Jean-Philippe Maury, a world-renowned pastry chef from France. Time Cupsoul’s dear sister picked up a chocolate bar and chocolate bon-bon at the Aria hotel in Las Vegas, and bottom line, the chocolate is lovely. First, the chocolate bar packaging revealed the deep-brown color of the bar via a large, clear cellophane “window” and also showcased the cursive “Jean Philippe Pâtisserie” logo in brown and yellow. The back of the packaging stated: “‘Like jewelry or perfume. A blend, a shape, a…
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New Chocolate Podcast: “The Slow Melt”
It’s with great excitement that Time Cupsoul shares a new podcast solely about chocolate, entitled, “The Slow Melt,” launched today. Why is Time Cupsoul sharing this first-ever chocolate podcast? Author and The Slow Melt podcast host, Ms. Simran Sethi, is deeply admired by Time Cupsoul for her innovative food and environmental writing. Her book, Bread, Wine and Chocolate, is a Time Cupsoul-approved, highly-recommended read for nature, chocolate and coffee lovers (yes, there’s a chapter on coffee, too, as well as bread and beer)! This podcast and Sethi’s work deserve to be…
