Hot Cocoa Top 10: Adventures & Lessons

Hot Cocoa Top 10: Adventures & Lessons

Can you really have adventures (and even life lessons) by drinking hot chocolate that others have ranked as Top Ten? This is what happens when you get a hair-brained idea to put together a Meetup for a hot chocolate tour of NYC. Last summer I tried a chocolate tour –...
Top Hot Chocolate places in NYC to explore (2018)

Top Hot Chocolate places in NYC to explore (2018)

Recently, one of my favorite sources for finding things to explore in NYC featured an article on Top Hot Chocolate places.  The listicle showed up on a very cold, wintry day.  As you may know, I adore chocolate!  (If you don’t know, I’ll include links to my other...
Chocolate Tour of NYC!  A new perspective on touring

Chocolate Tour of NYC! A new perspective on touring

A chocolate tour of NYC?  With an adventurous outlook and a love of chocolate…well, why not? A few years ago, after I had learned that the cacao bean was my ‘spirit animal’ (or food), I decided that maybe learning to make chocolate or get into the...
Adventure to a Costa Rican Chocolate Farm

Adventure to a Costa Rican Chocolate Farm

Imagine yourself standing on a mountainside dirt road in the tropics.  It’s a humid day, the temperature is in the 80s and the sky is slightly overcast. You are in the middle of the rainforest, visiting an organic, beyond-Fair-Trade cacao farm with fifteen...