A guide to filling an Easter basket with things people will remember -  for kids, for adults, and for anyone who deserves better than a bag of stale jellybeans. Our massive Caramel Popcorn Chocolate Egg Let’s have an honest conversation about Easter baskets. The classic version - a hollow chocolate bunny of uncertain origin, and a handful of jellybeans that will rattle around in a bowl until July, and basket of plastic grass that seems to multiply when it spills - has its cha

A breakdown of the three main types of chocolate, and what makes each one worth loving. What actually separates dark chocolate from milk chocolate from white chocolate, beyond the obvious color difference? It’s one of the most common questions we get, and it’s a genuinely good one. The answer is more interesting than most people expect, and understanding it changes the way you read a label, choose a truffle, and appreciate what you’re eating. All three have a place at the tab

The health benefits of chocolate are real - and more interesting than you might think. Dark chocolate packs the biggest punch when it comes to chocolate's health benefits Most of us don't reach for chocolate because we read a health study. We reach for it because it's one of life's great simple pleasures - rich, indulgent, and satisfying in a way that a rice cake will never be. But here's the thing: science has been quietly (and at times not-so-quietly) building a case for ch

Told by the person who built it I am a chocoholic. Have been my entire life, which is funny because people who meet me tend to be surprised when I tell them I'm a chocolatier. "But you're so skinny," they say. To which I always give the same answer: all the calories I gain eating it, I burn off making it. It's a perfect system and I'm not going to question it. Me as the Muffin Man in preschool, 2001 The longer answer to how I became a chocolatier starts in a fifth grade class