Chocolate, Confections & Candy
ARTICLES & TIPS
From Choosing and Tasting Chocolate, Wine and Chocolate
Pairings to How Chocolate is Made, here's our Big Blend Chocolate, Candy
& Confections Articles
& Tips Guide.
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Choosing
& Tasting Chocolate -
Specialty food and grocery stores offer aisles of chocolate from around
the world. To choose your chocolate, you’ll need some basic knowledge
about fine cacao, and you’ll need your taste buds. Lauren Adler
helps
you get started!
Pairing
Wine with Chocolate -
There are no right and wrong answers when is comes to food pairing.
However, as 'Grand Cru Guru' Tracy Ellen Kamens explains, keeping some
principles of food and wine pairing in mind can improve and enhance the
pairing.
Valentine’s
Day Wine & Chocolate Pairings
- Joe O’ Keefe 'The Wine 101 Guy’, shares his Valentine’s Day picks for
a romantic Wine & Chocolate experience, including Banfi Rosa Regale, a
red bubbly; and Jocelyn-Lonen Cabernet from Napa Valley.
Tasting
& Appreciating Chocolate
- Good
chocolate has to be shiny, crunchy, and bitter, with low sugar and fat
content and savory in mouth. Maralyn Hill and Brenda Hill 'The Tandem
Tasters' explain how to look for polish, shine and color, aroma,
flavor, consistency, and overall taste.
