Comments on: Living Well: 9 Secrets to Tasting Chocolate

By: Living Well: 9 Secrets to Tasting Chocolate | MandyE

Living Well: 9 Secrets to Tasting Chocolate | MandyE — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 01:10:59 +0000

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By: Kevin Cotter

Kevin Cotter — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:46:06 +0000

Great article! You’ve touched on many of the points that most people don’t know about chocolate. One of the key points that are most important to me are the health benefits of consuming the right kind of dark chocolate. We as a society are just learning now, through modern science, what the ancient Aztec and Mayan people already knew. they consumed a drink daily called Xocolatyl, made from crushing cacao beans and mixing in water. I remember a comment by one of my university professors about the fact that their lifespans were longer and healthier than ours. Interesting? Yes.

By: AKS

AKS — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:13:46 +0000

Thank you so much for sharing this in such detail !!

By: Doreen Pendgracs

Doreen Pendgracs — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:01:55 +0000

Terrific article! I’ve been immersed in the world of chocolate for the past 3+ years and have found chocolate tasting and appreciation to be so much like wine tasting and appreciation. Your article has spelled that out nicely.

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By: DM

DM — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:58:34 +0000

I think it’s really important to include looking for a Fair Trade or similar qualification as part of Secret 3. Many bean-to-bar chocolates are ethically sourced but by no means all, and the dark side of chocolate (no pun intended) is something to avoid at all costs – child slavery and deforestation being just two components.

By: Melinda George

Melinda George — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 05:05:12 +0000

I took a chocolate class from Matt Caputo once, I learned so much and my chocolate experience has been changed forever. Chocolate is an art form, tasty and glorious!

By: Alicia

Alicia — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:21:19 +0000

I loved this post. So informative and I am definitely going to give chocolate tasting a try. Thanks!

By: Bonnie @ the pin junkie

Bonnie @ the pin junkie — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:27:40 +0000

Taste it? I usually just inhale it!

By: Andrea Graf

Andrea Graf — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:52:07 +0000

Great article, I’m a chocolate snob, I’ve never been that big on cheap commercial chocolate so tasting artisan chocolate was a revelation to me. Amazing!

Thanks for sharing the secrets to fully enjoying a great chocolate, not chewing is essential to tasting the perfection of a dark chocolate since chewing brings out the bitterness and masks the creamy perfection.

By: Reb

Reb — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:50:37 +0000

Wonderful article – I love fine chocolate and learned so much. Thanks!

By: Tonja

Tonja — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 04:07:04 +0000

I’ve never acquired a taste for wine, but becoming a chocolate connoisseur is something I could get excited about! Thank you for the great post!

By: Joy

Joy — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:43:55 +0000

I am actually eating a bar of Green and Black’s 85% Cacao Bar right now. Love the dark stuff. Just wish I could find it in smaller portions. I have a hard time putting it down and the big bars say 2.5 servings…

By: Danzel B.

Danzel B. — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:23:08 +0000

Oh, man… This post is EVIL. ;o)

I wish I had time to run to my favorite chocolatier’s today…

By: Shannon { A Mom's Year }

Shannon { A Mom's Year } — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:44:42 +0000

This is such a fun series! Ever since I read *French Women Don’t Get Fat,” I pick up some Valrhona chocolate whenever I’m at Trader Joe’s. I’m so glad chocolate is good for us. :)

By: CMN

CMN — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:20:26 +0000

What a lovely post on Valentines Day! The only thing that would have made it better would be samples… ;)

My current favorite is, well, anything by La Maison du Chocolat!

By: Megan

Megan — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:26:42 +0000

Fabulous post! I am fortunate to live very close to an artisan chocolatier’s shop called Stella Leona Artisan Chocolates. There is nothing like small batch artisan chocolates.

By: Val

Val — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:26:33 +0000

Yum! Now I just need to find a good chocolate shop in my rural area. Thanks for all the information.. I can’t wait to use it!

By: Alice

Alice — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:25:16 +0000

I LOVE this. I am a huge proper-chocolate afficianado, and really appreciate the good stuff. That said, I’m also massively partial to good old fashioned British Cadbury’s Dairy Milk (I specify British because apparently it’s different in other places! Weird. Ours is clearly the best though) x