Tag Archives: chocolate

Culinary Pilgrimages: Part 7 – Lovely Lyon

Our timing for the drive to the train station was good. With a 12 noon train, we missed the rush hour traffic and made it to Brussels with plenty of time to find the Car Rental return and get our [...]

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

May your day be filled with love and great chocolate! This photo was taken at The Chocolate Line in Antwerp, Belgium.
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Sunday Photo – Hot Chocolate at Mast Brothers

I recently visited the Mast Brothers Chocolate Tasting Room and Store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where I literally felt like a kid in a candy store. Their bean to bar chocolate is world class and arguably the best produced in the [...]

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Sunday Photo – Happy Easter!

This photo was taken earlier this year at Bernachon in Lyon, France. It is of molds used to make chocolate chicks for Easter. The chocolates at Bernachon, are, in my opinion, as good as it gets. Hope your Easter is [...]

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Michael Laiskonis Does Chocolate

Michael Laiskonis, one of the world's great pastry chefs, a very smart man, great writer and super guy recently went to a chocolate plantation in the DR, where he he followed the cycle of cacao from beginning to end and [...]

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Under the Wynn: Pastry and Bread – Part One – Pastry

I have been to a number of medical meetings including some in Las Vegas. It is not unusual for them to supply a continental breakfast in the morning before the meeting gets going. It is unusual for that breakfast to [...]

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