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		<title>Chocolate Adventures in England &#8211; Thorntons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My little niece was baptized on Valentines Day, Feb. 14, 2010 in a small church near Covent Garden in London.
Previously I had been told the English didn’t celebrate Valentines Day much, but that’s not what I experienced.  The chocolate shops and patisseries surrounding the church fully embraced the holiday with window displays decked out in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Nibs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cocoa (or Cacao) Nibs are made from cocoa beans after they get separated from their thin shells and roasted.  The bulk of nibs produced are ground into chocolate liquor, either used as unsweetened baking chocolate or as the main ingredient of chocolate bars and candies. 
Roasted cocoa nibs are not for everyone.  They taste rather bitter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chocolate Adventures in England – Digestives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Could you go for a chocolate digestive and tea?” – my sister asked me shortly after arriving at her flat in London.  There is nothing more refreshing than a digestive and tea after a long flight.
Digestive biscuits are extremely popular in the UK.  They are a cross between a cookie and a cracker, slightly on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Troubleshoot Chocolate Tempering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was asked about tempered chocolate that fails to keep a good shine and what can be done to fix that?  (See comments on how to temper chocolate page.)
That&#8217;s a really good question.  Concerns about the streaking and the lack of shine make me think about how temperatures, crystal development and the appearance of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chocolate Adventures in England &#8211; Green &amp; Black&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Green and Black&#8217;s Organic Chocolate.  Have you seen these chocolate bars in the stores and pharmacies of your neighborhood?  Green and Black&#8217;s is definitely all over London!  G&#38;B is an English chocolate company started in 1991.  The founders &#8220;set out to bring to the masses the world&#8217;s first organic chocolate.&#8221;  You can visit them at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chocolate Adventures in England &#8211; Jaffa Cakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I find myself sitting in my sister&#8217;s flat in London, England eating Jaffa Cakes and sipping Frangelico flavored coffee.  I am visiting my sister and my brand new niece, only 2 days old.
What is Jaffa Cake?
The Jaffa Cake is a British favorite.  The cake is a three layered treat about the size of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chocolate and Romance: A Great Pairing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No one knows for sure how St. Valentines Day became synonymous with romantic love. There are a number of theories, but that is not really important.  Once the tradition got started, all kinds of things naturally presented themselves as part of the language of love&#8230;
Like chocolate, for instance.
Chocolate and romance go together. 
Throughout history, people have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trader Joe’s Milk and Dark Chocolate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The bright purple wrapper of Trader Joe’s Organic Super Dark Chocolate and the equally bright pink packaging of Trader Joe’s Swiss Milk Chocolate certainly catch the attention of shoppers lining up in the check out lane.  But what really got MY attention were the claims on the label.
The organic, 73% super dark chocolate bar reads [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chocolateuniversityonline.com/blog/trader-joes-swiss-milk-chocolate-and-dark-chocolate-organic.html</link>
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		<title>Chocolate Covered Strawberries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever cut corners while cooking?  Ever used short cuts that the original recipe had you make from scratch? 
I have.  And why not?  Most often those “changes” don’t affect the final product and it saves lots of time.  Yes, sometimes I even buy frosting in a can (shhh, don’t tell my kids!).
One thing I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthy Chocolate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the USDA website, www.usda.gov, chocolate and cocoa powder contain “hefty quantities of natural antioxidants called flavonoids…..antioxidants are thought to be effective in helping to prevent cancer, heart disease, and stroke.”
How do anti-oxidants help us?   “Anti”-oxidants counteract the negative effects of oxidation on our bodies.  Oxidation damages cells and tissues.  What is oxidation, you [...]]]></description>
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