Jon | June 3, 2011
Today I received a free Amano Morobe bar in the mail, along with a Guayas bar which I have reviewed in the past. The Morobe bar is made from beans grown in Papua New Guinea. I think this is the first chocolate I ever had made from beans grown there. The packaging lists tasting notes: [...]
Jon | April 23, 2010
My wife bought me some chocolate recently (which is why I married her). Normally, the chocolate I find locally is junk in a plastic wrapper. But this bar had a different kind of wrapper. The Art Bar is produced by Ithaca Fine Chocolates in (you guessed it) Ithaca, NY. This is a certified organic Fair [...]
Jon | March 19, 2010
I picked up two chocolate bars at a Hannaford grocery store in town. I have a hard time finding chocolate these days other than the big stores. There really aren’t alot of places around here, so when I find something different, I give it a try. The brand on these was “Taste of Inspirations” which [...]
Jon | January 1, 2010
Recently, I discovered another “local” chocolatier who specializes in truffles, and had the opportunity to buy some of them and try them out. They normally do mail order, but on occasion they are in area stores selling directly. These were sold in a liquor store and so all the truffles they were selling that day [...]
Jon | December 18, 2009
Two new chocolate-like things for today. One is real chocolate, the other is chocolate containing candy. The Bis chocolate candy was given to me by someone who had come from Brazil, and I guess they bought them there. The language on the package looks like Portuguese. They are kind of like a Kit Kat bar [...]
Jon | December 11, 2009
I had the chance to try out two of Amano’s newest chocolate bars. In the interest of full disclosure and in compliance with the FTC’s newest rules, I received these bars for free from a marketing company. Ofcourse, as anyone who still reads my blog knows, if something is awful I will freely say so. [...]
Jon | November 20, 2009
Hey look! A post about chocolate. :) This is the first time I have ever had E. Guittard chocolate before. I had read about it on another blog, but have never seen it in stores until now. While I was at the Cape this summer, I came across it in Stop ‘N Shop, of all [...]
Jon | May 29, 2009
I bought some Seeds of Change Chocolate at the store this week, so that I could compare them here. I’ve bought some of their stuff before, with the full intention of blogging about it, but always ending up eating it and forgetting what it tasted like. I guess they make/sell alot of organic plants and [...]
Jon | May 22, 2009
I know this isn’t really chocolate, but I was sent a free bar to give it a review, and it does have chocolate chips, so here it is. This is the Odwalla Mocha-walla bar. I’ve had alot of Odwalla products in the past, especially the Odwalla drinks. I tend to shy away from many of [...]
Jon | May 8, 2009
Yesterday I received a small package in the mail from Amano chocolates containing samples of three new chocolates from them. Big things come in small packages! Speaking of packages. Have a closer look at the artwork on the boxes themselves. The artists who did the artwork for each of these boxes is named on the [...]