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Archive for NYCThe Taste of Passion: NYC Chocolate Show
Food events like this are, above all, overwhelming. With more than 65 exhibitors filling the room, live demonstrations happening in various corners, and a Pantone fan deck–worth of color and design vying for your attention from signage, packaging, book jackets, and displays at every turn, it is enough to cause vertigo. Happily there is plenty of curative chocolate on hand to restore you as quickly as it did Harry Potter after a bout with the Dementors.
Chocolate Show Finds for Holiday Gift-Giving
Chocolate Show Showcases the Ravishing & the Raw
Calling All Cupcake Bakers!Have you jumped on the cupcake craze bandwagon yet? If not, this might be a good time to turn your kitchen creativity up to 11 and whip up a recipe that combines the miniature joy of a cupcake with the best ingredient on earth: chocolate. Scharffen Berger Chocolate and TuttiFoodie have announced this year’s Chocolate Adventure Contest with three fantastic top prizes, and it’s all about cupcakes. Big Apple Bite: Cercle Rouge Brassierie on West Broadway
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People say “I love chocolate” all the time. I say (and demonstrate through worshipful consumption) how much I “love” chocolate all the time, practically defining my personality by it. There are cat people, there are electronic gadget people, there are craft people; I am a chocolate person. And so were the many hundreds of others who gathered at the Metropolitan Pavilion last month for the gorgeous, glorious, gastronomically glamorous 14th Annual 
The key to navigating the Chocolate Show, I’ve found, is to seek out the passion. Everything tastes good, everything looks lovely, but when you find the exhibitor (whether the chocolatier him or herself or an enthusiastic brand ambassador) whose honest excitement about and true dedication to their product—their art—are as boldly on display as their edible wares, that’s where you strike gold.
Visiting the Chocolate Show in November was perfect timing for snapping up specialty treats and discovering great finds for holiday gift buying. Raw chocolate was a 
Before a much planned visit to the “Big Apple” I went to the internet to find a French restaurant for dinner on one of my few precious date nights out with my husband! In my ‘internet travels’, I came upon CERCLE ROUGE on West Broadway, a quaint French restaurant that I just have to share with all of you!
