Imagine drifting off to a blissful paradise as your aching muscles are massaged with a cool, thick and refreshing chocolate mixture and then being wrapped in a thermal blanket and left to relax as you inhale the intoxicating scent of heavenly chocolate. A few gourmet truffles melt in your mouth as you depart with luminous and chocolate-scented skin.
Chocolate has many positive health benefits, both when it... Read More...
Each year all of the families, babies included, of my 6 year-old son’s school go camping together by a river that flows from natural hot springs with waterfalls and lush vegetation here in Mexico. The fun river activities, including ziplining (ziplining is the sport of soaring high above the ground while your body is secured in a harness and attached to an overhead cable), campfire dancing and singing,... Read More...
Lucky me to have a friend who gives tours of Mexico and always brings me back criollo (criollo is the rarest and most expensive chocolate in the world) chocolate, from Tabasco and kilos of Mayordomo 100% pure cacao from Oaxaca. Thank you, Alejandra! You will all get a chance to meet Alejandra in the near future, because Alejandra and I are teaming up to offer you luxurious and adventurous chocolate tours... Read More...
The research recommends sticking with dark chocolate. Chocolate is considered dark chocolate when it has 65 percent or higher cacoa content. Dark chocolate is better for us, because it contains less sugar, than semi-sweet or milk chocolate. It is also healthier, because dark chocolate contains more cacoa. This means it has more antioxidants. Did you know it is also abundant in iron? Yes, it is. Chocolate... Read More...
Make Valentine’s Day fun for the both of you. My simple, yet very romantic and playful idea, is to make my easy chocolate fondue recipe, adapted from Tyler Florence chocolate fondue recipe, and serve it with a cold sparkling wine or champagne. You will have so much fun feeding each other marshmallows, banana slices, almond biscotti, angel food cake, pear slices, and cherries all dipped in chocolate. So... Read More...
Welcome to Chocolate Central. Chocolate is one of life’s great pleasures and like any subject, the more you know about it, the deeper and richer is your experience of it. As an adventure-seeker at heart and former educator and film producer, I’m exploring the exotic world of chocolate in search of fabulous chocolate experiences and I’m sharing Read More
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