by Sonia Lyris | Aug 9, 2011 | The Crush Pad Editorials
Valrhona Le Noir Extra Amer 85% & 71% (and Valrhona Alpaco 66%) Hunting up the dark at Trader Joe’s? You’ll notice TJ’s stocks enough dark chocolate to befuddle the wisest among us. I’ve stood in the chocolate section for long minutes on...
by Sonia Lyris | Aug 3, 2011 | The Crush Pad Editorials
If you’re serious about Seattle’s dark side, you need to drop by <a href=”http://www.chocolopolis.com/”>Chocolopolis</a> in Queen Anne. Try their weekly happy hour, Thursdays, 5 to 9pm. Last week was staff picks — a lovely...
by Mark Christian | Jul 30, 2011 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
(Excerpt from Fresco’s #210 bar review) Fresco Rob Anderson shies away from absolutes. For him, “chocolate is about personal taste, preference & a number of other nebulous criteria”. He prefers to list each bar & its parameter settings (roast, conche,...
by Sonia Lyris | Jul 25, 2011 | The Crush Pad Editorials
Taza Stone Ground Dark Organic Chocolate In 70% & 80% 3 ounce (85g) bars When it’s time to go high-end, wrap your mouth around the words “artisan chocolate.” Say it a few times until it rolls smoothly off your tongue. Not so smooth? That’s...
by Mark Christian | Jun 30, 2011 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
We’re all travelers in the wilderness of this world, & the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend – Robert Louis Stevenson Many have seized upon Chris Bright’s 2001 article for World Watch in search of strategies / tactics using Theobroma cacao,...
by Mark Christian | May 31, 2011 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
We’re all on drugs – Weezer In line with his film Roger & Me detailing the heartless incompetence of Detroit’s carmakers, Michael Moore once made an aside that if the government really wanted to defang organized crime, they should hire bungling GM management...
by Mark Christian | Apr 18, 2011 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
A new style of bar-making has emerged throughout the New World, dramatic enough to be added to the C-spot™ Census. These clean / lean ‘n mean high-percentage pieces embody an indigenous ‘retro-American’ approach. Usually containing only cocoa beans...
by Mark Christian | Apr 1, 2011 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
The FCC has its clusterfuck of banned words (none of them prohibited on this site). Here’s ours, & please contact us to add your own. DECADENT (or use with caution) DELECTABLE DELICIOUS DELIGHTFUL DIVINE CHOCOLATEY; CHOCOLATINESS COMPLEX, adj., excepting the 6th...
by Mark Christian | Mar 15, 2011 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
Word-Cloud dataset from front & back of 23 bar wrappers claiming to be Arriba cacáo; image generated via Wordle (http://www.wordle.net/); Cristian Melo @ 2010 Chocolate, like sex, sells. Better yet when sold together – the M.O. of Vosges. But really, no need to...
by Mark Christian | Feb 17, 2011 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
The hysterics are wrong. 9/11 DID NOT change everything. That event, however momentous, forms part of a longer, continual loop of what prescient poet Robert Burns described back in 1785 as “man’s inhumanity to man”. Sgt. Pepper – now that arguably did change...
