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  • CT Chocolate Trail includes stops in Meriden, Wallingford

    MERIDEN — Walking into Thompson Chocolate’s Factory Store, you are immediately hit with the overwhelming smell of chocolate. The store, tucked in a residential section of the city at 80 S. Vine St., is just one of the stops on the Connecticut Office of Tourism’s Chocolate Trail this year. T...
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  • What I’ve learned from a year at the (chocolate) coalface | Food

    It’s been a smidge over a year that I’ve been writing about chocolate and this is what I’ve learned: 1. The chocolate world is full of lovely people, but it can also be bitchier than the world of fashion (in which I worked for more than a decade). I once spent a week visiting chocolatiers and man...
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  • The Best Chocolate in San Francisco, Past to Present

    From miners seeking gold to makers refining beans, our local chocolate has a rich history — plus, where to find the sweetest gifts today If you trek all the way down to Ghirardelli Square, which of course locals rarely do, and get into that long line of tourists, you can smell it — chocolate in t...
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  • COVID-19 hits Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory’s bottom line

    Profits at Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory decreased by 53.8% for its fiscal year 2020 to $1 million and the rocky road for the chocolatier does not appear to be getting easier as COVID-19 restrictions limit sales and increases costs. “We have experienced business disruptions resulting from effo...
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  • Hershey’s Chocolate World reopens with new coronavirus safeguards: Here’s our first look

    On any given day during the summer, it would normally be common to find large crowds throughout the gift shop, cafeteria and attractions at Hershey’s Chocolate World. The venue has served as the official visitor center for The Hershey Company since 1973, according to Suzanne Jones, vice president...
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  • ‘It’s not candy — it’s chocolate’

    Chocolatier Pete Hoepfner has a nickname: “the candy man.” Some confectioners would find this nickname flattering. Hoepfner doesn’t. As proprietor of Pete’s Treats, chocolate truffles are Hoepfner’s specialty. Like the round fungus after which they’re named, truffles require a surprisingly long t...
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  • White Chocolate Market: Maintaining a Strong Sales Outlook

    The Latest research study released by HTF MI “Global and China White Chocolate Market” with 100+ pages of analysis on business Strategy taken up by key and emerging industry players and delivers know how of the current market development, landscape, technologies, drivers, opportunities, market vi...
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  • Global Organic Chocolate Market 2020-2024 | Health Benefits of Organic Chocolates to Boost Growth

    Technavio has been monitoring the global organic chocolate market size and it is poised to grow by USD 127.31 million during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR of almost 3% during the forecast period. The report offers an up-to-date analysis regarding the current market scenario, latest trends and ...
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  • Gather your friends — and some chocolate (or cheese, or wine) — for online tastings

    VALENTINA VITOLS BELLO is more than a chocolate lover. She’s a connoisseur — so much so, she became a certified chocolate taster a couple of years ago. Since then, she’s hosted chocolate tastings with friends. They get together, taste chocolate and compare notes as she tells them about a given ch...
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  • No need to lose your temper: Uncover the secrets of chocolate tempering

    As an independent student newspaper and the paper of record for the city of Berkeley, the Daily Cal has been communicating important updates during this pandemic. Your support is essential to maintaining this coverage. While chocolate is great on its own, adding nuts into the equation is the icin...
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  • Chocolate Wrapping Machine Market Outlook: Investors Still Miss The Big Assessment | Stay Tuned For Latest Update

    The statistical surveying report on the global chocolate wrapping machine market has been prepared by using professional or expert knowledge through standard and modified research approaches and forecasts. The report carefully examines the chocolate wrapping machine market, with a focus on most o...
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  • How common baking mistakes change chocolate-chip cookies

    I’m not a baker by any stretch of the imagination, and I often make mistakes with the simplest of recipes. I freestyle a lot while I’m cooking, but doing so with baked goods could result in a disaster. To conquer my fear of baking, and as a longtime lover of chocolate-chip cookies, I ...
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