TCL LIVE | November News Roundup and AMA

By TheChocolateWire | a year ago | 6 min read

Original photo Tim Mossholder / Unsplash

Episode 143 of #TheChocolateLifeLIVE goes LIVE at 10:00 AM PDT / 1:00 PM EDT on Friday, November 3rd.

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Episode 143 Overview

Once a month here on TheChocolateLifeLIVE I dedicate an episode to covering news about cocoa, chocolate, and related topics that have come to my attention.

This is that episode for the month of November.

I will also be fielding questions – AMA about cocoa or chocolate – from participants in the livestream.

Programming Note

Daylight Savings ends this coming Sunday, November 5th. I am in the part of Arizona that does not observe Daylight Savings so I have been scheduling episodes for Pacific Daylight Time even though I live in Mountain Standard Time.

From Tuesday, November 7th, episodes will still begin at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time / 1:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time even though it means an 11:00 a.m. start time for me.

News Highlights in this Episode

The 2024 edition of the Craft Chocolat Challenge is now accepting entries!

I will be the head judge for this awards program.

STOP the Abominable Conflation! (Please!)

It’s either fish or it’s not. Fish-adjacent? But it’s past time to stop referring to alt.animalprotein this way. Am I the only one?

Previously Mentioned

This is actually a VERY good video up until the 20:10 mark, at which point it jumps the shark JO starts drinking the Kool-Aid that he spent much of the previous twenty minutes carefully explaining why we should not take Tony’s story at face value.

The reported results are just as bad as I thought they might be. They learned nothing from the pushback on the original results.

Coverage on TheChocolateLife

Food Safety

California Food Safety Act Explained | News

Specialty Food AssociationAuthor: George Hajjar

Markets

Miscellaneous

SFA’s Trendspotters Prognosticate 2024 Trends | News

Specialty Food Association

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Cocoa Pods: Potential Source of Chocolate, Flame Retardants

AMA – Ask Me Anything (about cocoa or chocolate)

Have a question you want answered? Post it in the YouTube live chat or the comments on LinkedIn or Facebook. I will share the question and do my best to answer it during the episode

Questions? Thoughts? Contribute!

If you want to share your thoughts and/or questions in the comments below before the livestream begins, add them in the comments below.

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