For All My Valentines

According to an article posted in Atlas Obscura (link under More Reading below), men were often fearful that women would slip magic potions into their morning hot chocolate. And during the Inquisition women who used cacao to entice lovers and spurn enemies were persecuted.

Not quite what you were expecting? (But then, no one expects the Spanish Inquisition!)

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Not Sure What to Gift This Year?

Buying Chocolate to Gift for Valentine’s Day

Whatever you decide to do, make it fun. If it involves chocolate and you’re not having fun, you’re doing it wrong.

The Chocolate LifeDiscoverChoc

Some “Gift to Impress” tips on how to approach buying chocolate for gifting – for someone you know well, and for someone you’d like to get to know better.

Looking For Something Tasty to do?

Looking to celebrate Valentine’s day with a special beer/chocolate this year? Find some guidance from a beer and chocolate pairing event I did for Valentine’s Day 2017.

Valentine’s Day 2017 Beer and Chocolate Pairing

Reporting back after my Valentine’s Day chocolate/beer pairing at Burp Castle onEast 7th Street – making up one corner of the Brewmuda Triangle – NYC. It is always fun to work up chocolate and beer pairings. I personally find it a lot easier to create happy marriages between chocolateand beers t…

The Chocolate LifeClay Gordon

More Reading

The Chocolate-Brewing Witches of Colonial Latin America

The Inquisition persecuted women who used cacao to entice lovers and spurn enemies.

Atlas ObscuraReina Gattuso

Valentine’s Day - Wikipedia

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What do you have planned for Valentine’s Day this year? Let us know in the comments