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  • Climate change could shrink chocolate production: report

    10/12/2011 9:07:30 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 52 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | 10/12/11 | Tiffany Hsu
    Scientists say climate change will eventually claim many victims -– including, according to a new report, chocolate. As temperatures increase and weather trends change, the main growing regions for cocoa could shrink drastically, according to new research from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture. Ghana and the Ivory Coast –- which produce more than half of the global cocoa supply –- could take a major hit by 2050. Currently, the optimal locations to grow the crop are about 330 feet to 820 feet above sea level, with temperatures of about 72 degrees Fahrenheit to 77 degrees. That range will soar...
  • Recipe for Chocolate Fondue

    09/30/2011 4:25:49 PM PDT · by lowbridge · 6 replies
    http://theknightshift.blogspot.com/ ^ | September 28, 2011 | Christopher Knight
    Chocolate Fondue - 1 and 1/4 cups whole milk - 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract - 2 tablespoons unsalted butter - 4 ounces Ghiradelli 70% Cacao Extra Bittersweet Chocolate baking bar (broken up into pieces) - 4 ounces Ghiradelli Milk Chocolate Baking Bar (also broken up into pieces) Pour the milk, vanilla extract and butter into a saucepan. Heat the saucepan on medium and mix well. When it has begun to slightly boil from the heat, remove from the burner and pour in the bittersweet and milk chocolate bar pieces. Keep stirring until the bars are completely melted and the...
  • Chocolate 'as good for you as exercise'

    09/14/2011 4:25:41 PM PDT · by Para-Ord.45 · 90 replies · 1+ views
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ ^ | Thursday 15 September 2011 | telegraph.co.uk
    Scientists found that small amounts of dark chocolate may improve health in a similar way to exercise. The researchers focused on the mitochondria, the tiny powerhouses in cells that generate energy, and discovered that a plant compound found in chocolate, called epicatechin, appeared to stimulate the same muscle response as vigorous activity. ''Aerobic exercise, such as running or cycling, is known to increase the number of mitochondria in muscle cells. Our study has found that epicatechin seems to bring about the same response - particularly in the heart and skeletal muscles.''
  • Chocolate Good for the Heart and Brain (Analysis of multiple studies shows significant impact)

    08/29/2011 3:24:56 PM PDT · by Stoat · 7 replies
    Medscape Medical News ^ | August 29, 2011 | Michael O'Riordan
    Chocolate Good for the Heart and Brain Michael O'Riordan   August 29, 2011 (Paris, France) — In a city renowned for its love of food, it is only fitting that researchers presented the results of a new study in Paris, France, showing that chocolate is good for the heart and brain. In a presentation at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2011 Congress, British investigators are reporting that individuals who ate the most chocolate had a 37% lower risk of cardiovascular disease and a 29% lower risk of stroke compared with individuals who ate the least amount of chocolate. In the study, published online...
  • Chocolate Benefits Touted in Study

    08/29/2011 9:08:41 AM PDT · by freespirited · 3 replies
    MedPage Today ^ | 08/29/11 | Todd Neale
    PARIS -- Willy Wonka may have been on to something with that chocolate factory, according to a meta-analysis that suggests chocolate can provide a heart benefit. In six studies, people who ate the most chocolate -- about two pieces of chocolate per week -- had a 37% lower risk of any cardiovascular disease compared with those who ate less (RR 0.63, 95% CI 0.44 to 0.90), according to Oscar Franco, MD, PhD, of the University of Cambridge in England. And in three studies, those who consumed the most had a 29% lower risk of stroke (RR 0.71, 95% CI 0.52...
  • Chocolate wards off hunger, and maybe sunburn too

    08/17/2011 8:45:13 AM PDT · by smokingfrog · 25 replies
    Montreal Gazette ^ | 16 Aug 2011 | Agence France-Presse
    MONTREAL -- Scientists in Canada said Monday that they plan to study whether eating dark chocolate not only satisfies sweet tooth cravings, but protects against sunburn as well. The study by researchers at Laval University in Quebec will monitor the effects of chocolate consumption on fair-skinned volunteers between the ages of 25 and 65, each of whom will be prevailed upon to eat three squares of chocolate per day for 12 weeks. Earlier research in Germany and Britain has found that chemicals in chocolate called polyphenals increase blood flow close to the skin, which helps protect against ultraviolet rays, but...
  • Think that chocolate is from Switzerland? You may enjoy it more...

    07/20/2011 5:21:47 PM PDT · by Diana in Wisconsin · 28 replies
    Mother Nature Network ^ | July 20, 2011 | Live Science
    (During a taste test, participants that were told that the chocolate was from Switzerland enjoyed it more. Those told of the chocolate's supposed origin after the taste test enjoyed it less.) Swiss chocolate's reputation influences how people rate it in taste tests, a new study shows. When consumers are told that they're about to eat a chocolate bar from Switzerland, they prefer it to that same bar tagged "made in China." If they are told about the Swiss chocolate bar's origin after they taste the candy, however, they say they prefer the Chinese chocolate. Researchers from Babson Collegein Wellesley, Mass.,...
  • Vanilla, Chocolate Top List of Favorite Ice Cream Flavors

    07/14/2011 5:05:45 PM PDT · by randita · 54 replies
    Rasmussen Reports ^ | 7/14/11 | Rasmussen Staff
    Vanilla, Chocolate Top List of Favorite Ice Cream Flavors Thursday, July 14, 2011 When it comes to frozen treats, Americans prefer to keep it simple. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Adults who eat ice cream at least occasionally finds that 23% say vanilla is best, while the same number (23%) prefers chocolate. Nine percent (9%) like butter pecan the most, while strawberry and cookies and cream each earn eight percent (8%) of the vote. Six percent (6%) prefer mint chocolate chip, and another four percent (4%) choose coffee flavored ice cream. Seventeen percent (17%) prefer some other...
  • World’s First 3D Chocolate Printer Presented By EPSRC

    07/09/2011 8:51:54 AM PDT · by smokingfrog · 31 replies
    crazyengineers.com ^ | 9 July 2011 | Ankita
    3D Chocolate Printer looks as quite an amusing name at the first glance. It makes you want to know what it really does. The 3D Chocolate printer allows you to create your own designs on a computer and reproduce them physically in three dimensional form in to chocolate. This interesting project is funded as part of the Research Council UK Cross-Research Council Programme – Digital Economy and is managed by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) on behalf of ESRC, AHRC and MRC. It is being led by the University of Exeter in collaboration with the University of...
  • Los Angeles bans chocolate milk from schools

    06/16/2011 2:59:17 PM PDT · by TexasCajun · 77 replies · 1+ views
    Syracuse.com ^ | June 15, 2011, 6:47 PM | The Associated Press The Associated Press
    Los Angeles -- The Los Angeles school board on Tuesday voted to eliminate chocolate and strawberry milk from schools as of July 1. LAUSD joins a growing number of school districts nationwide, including in the District of Columbia, Boulder Valley, Colo., and Berkeley, Calif., that serve only plain milk because of the added sugar contained in flavored versions. The proposal by Superintendent John Deasy came after popular British TV chef Jamie Oliver criticized the district in recent months for serving flavored milks, saying they contain the sugar equivalent of a candy bar.
  • Naomi Campbell's Complaints Get Chocolate Ad Pulled

    06/07/2011 3:09:56 PM PDT · by Diana in Wisconsin · 15 replies
    Atlantic Wire ^ | June 7, 2011 | Caitlin Dickson
    Players: Naomi Campbell; Cadbury Chocolate. Opening Serve: Model Naomi Campbell was not flattered by the use of her name in Cadbury's recent ad for a new chocolate bar reading, "Move over Naomi, there's a new diva in town." An offended Campbell said she was "shocked. It's upsetting to be described as chocolate, not just for me, but for all black women and black people. I do not find any humor in this. It is insulting and hurtful," according to The Daily Mail. After the Kraft-owned British confectioner refused to remove the ad from papers, The Independent reported that Campbell was...
  • Naomi Campbell vs. Cadbury (Being compare to a candy bar!)

    05/31/2011 5:11:06 PM PDT · by greatdefender · 26 replies
    OMG! ^ | May 31, 2011 | Claudine Zap, Yahoo! Buzz Log
    A new ad for Cadbury chocolate is leaving a bitter taste with Naomi Campbell. The supermodel is looking at "every option available," including legal action, in response to a promotion that compares the celebrity to a Dairy Milk Bliss bar. The ad reads, "Move over Naomi, there's a new diva in town," and shows the candy bar nestled in diamonds. The campaign ran in supermarkets and newspapers in the U.K. Campbell told the U.K. newspaper the Independent, "I am shocked. It's upsetting to be described as chocolate, not just for me, but for all black women and black people. I...
  • Make Prince William’s Chocolate Biscuit Cake For Yourself….

    05/02/2011 2:27:44 PM PDT · by sussex · 26 replies
    The Aged P.com ^ | 02/05/11 | the Aged P
    This was one of the two cakes commissioned by William and Kate for their wedding. The chocolate cake was William’s boyhood foody fetish.
  • LAUSD to remove chocolate, strawberry milk from schools, superintendent says

    04/28/2011 10:00:16 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 28 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | 4/28/11 | Howard Blume
    Los Angeles schools will remove high-sugar chocolate- and strawberry-flavored milk from their lunch and breakfast menus after food activists campaigned for the change, L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy announced this week. Deasy revealed his intent, which will require approval by the Los Angeles Unified Board of Education, during an appearance with celebrity chef Jamie Oliver on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Tuesday night. The policy change is part of a carefully negotiated happy ending between the Los Angeles Unified School District and Oliver. The chef's confrontations with the school system became a main theme in the current season of the TV reality...
  • Chocolate boss Ferrero dies in bike accident

    04/18/2011 4:39:28 PM PDT · by LibWhacker · 9 replies
    ABC.au | AFP ^ | 4/19/11
    Italian chocolate tycoon Pietro Ferrero, the joint chief executive of the group that owns Nutella and Ferrero Rocher, has died in a cycling accident in South Africa, a company spokesman said.Mr Ferrero, who was 47, fell from his bicycle during a regular riding session, probably because he was taken ill, while on a business trip in South Africa, the spokesman said, voicing the group's "deep dismay". Ferrero had co-run the sweets company with his younger brother Giovanni since 1997. Their 85-year-old father Michele, who turned the firm into a global leader of the confectionery industry after taking over in 1957,...
  • NPR calls Washington 'Chocolate City': Report focusing on racial make-up leaves bitter

    02/16/2011 4:22:14 PM PST · by Nachum · 24 replies · 1+ views
    wnd ^ | 2/16/11 | Joe Kovacs
    In the days following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin came under fire for publicly saying he wanted to rebuild his city as a "Chocolate New Orleans." Now, a report by National Public Radio is using similar terminology, calling the nation's capital "chocolate," but noting a change in its flavor. The article, titled, "D.C., Long 'Chocolate City,' Becoming More Vanilla," by Alex Kellogg, opens by stating: "For decades Washington, D.C., was known affectionately as 'Chocolate City' to many black Americans, because it was predominantly African-American. "Most big U.S. cities are getting browner as more blacks, Hispanics and Asians move...
  • Savor That Chocolate While You Can Still Afford It

    02/12/2011 6:41:55 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 85 replies · 1+ views
    Free Internet Press ^ | February 12, 2011
    In the not-too-distant future, chocolate will become a rarefied luxury, as expensive as caviar. John Mason, a Canadian expert on cocoa, first made this prophesy six years ago from his base in West Africa, the epicenter of production. He was confident enough to repeat it, over and over, to the directors of the biggest chocolate companies in the world. “Sometimes they were rude. Sometimes they were polite,” he said. “Behind me, they were sort of snickering.” Today they treat him like a guru. An influential set of senior industry heavyweights flew to Ghana last week to hear him speak; the...
  • The Chocolate Diet

    01/31/2011 6:07:44 PM PST · by Diana in Wisconsin · 45 replies
    The Milford Daily News ^ | January 31, 2011 | Gary Brown
    I hate to sound like the cover of some woman’s magazine, but today we’re going to talk about “The Sweet Science Behind Dark Chocolate” and “What Eating Dark Chocolate Can Do For You.” Scientists are my new best friends. At first, I thought those headlines were just stuck at the top to make me want to read the e-mail that followed. Maybe whoever was contacting the media was just trying to lure in candy-loving journalists with a chocolate-coated bait-and-switch press release that eventually got around to talking about health insurance reform. But, no, chocolate apparently is a “super food.”“Studies show...
  • Chocolate strawberries among extravagant demands by Pelosi (spent $101k in 2 years on services)

    01/27/2011 7:08:05 AM PST · by Libloather · 111 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 1/27/11 | Matt Blake
    Chocolate strawberries among extravagant demands by Nancy Pelosi as she spent $101,000 in two years on services while travelling with US AirforceBy Matt Blake Last updated at 2:02 PM on 27th January 2011 If the US Airforce did all airline food, it would be strawberries dipped in dark chocolate and grilled chicken salads all round. Unfortunately this luxury is reserved for top US politicians alone, as new documents detailing Nancy Pelosi's travel expenses reveal. The former House Speaker was showered with a cornucopia of gourmet food and alcohol as she travelled over 90,000 miles around the world in just nine...
  • Pelosi’s chocolate-covered strawberries: where’s the rest of the documents?

    01/27/2011 7:07:12 PM PST · by Libloather · 9 replies
    Yahoo ^ | 1/27/11 | Jonathan Strong
    Pelosi’s chocolate-covered strawberries: where’s the rest of the documents?Jonathan Strong - The Daily Caller Thu Jan 27, 3:44 pm ET **SNIP** But the documents provided by the Air Force have Judicial Watch scratching their heads over a key issue: where’s the rest of the expense reports they asked for? The documents provided by the Air Force show Pelosi took a total of 43 fights on military aircraft, but only 11 expense reports were provided to Judicial Watch. “I am not sure how to account for this,” said Judicial Watch spokeswoman Jill Farrell. Air Force officials did not return a call...