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Me, a Bar of Chocolate, and a Lesson in Patience

I used to think you needed to be some kind of culinary wizard to work with chocolate. The fermenting, cleaning, roasting, milling, tempering! The...

Food of the Gods - Once upon a chocolate!

You know that insanely satisfying feeling when chocolate melts slowly on your tongue? That little moment of magic has a surprisingly ancient backstory.

Making of the best chocolate - III

Part 3

With cocoa mass in hand, the manufacturers can now decide if the chocolate they want is going to be couverture or...

Making of the best chocolate - II

Part 2 When cocoa beans land in different parts of the world, chocolate manufacturers get to work. The beans are sorted and graded. And the processing work begins. Cocoa beans are roasted , alkalised and grounded to the desired consistency. Once this is done, the beans now turn to what...

Making of the best chocolate - I

Part 1 What is couverture chocolate ?Nowadays, we have heard brands talking about couverture chocolate. But as a consumer, what does this mean?Well, for this we need to go back to the roots , quite literally. Need to go back to see where chocolate comes from.Chocolate comes from a fruit...

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Recent posts

Me, a Bar of Chocolate, and a Lesson in Patience

I used to think you needed to be some kind of culinary wizard to work with chocolate. The fermenting, cleaning, roasting, milling, tempering! The...

Food of the Gods - Once upon a chocolate!

You know that insanely satisfying feeling when chocolate melts slowly on your tongue? That little moment of magic has a surprisingly ancient backstory.

Making of the best chocolate - III

Part 3

With cocoa mass in hand, the manufacturers can now decide if the chocolate they want is going to be couverture or...