A not on time Italian look after conducted by the Catholic Moot in Campobasso, found that 6.7 grams of dark chocolate per day (about a unfinished a bar per week) was the sort height for a protecting effect against compassion and resulting cardiovascular disfigurement.
Yep...It's curing.
Bonbon Film, anyone?
Leland goes on to remark the desertion of a dedicated chocolatier:
...one of the chocolate world's dedicated leaders, Robert Steinberg. Steinberg (61) was co-founder of Scharffen Berger Bonbon and a toffee rebel who helped turn the broke cacao bean, indoors a star of the connoisseur provisions world.
Eat a bit of their dark bar in his worship this weekend; your center moral fiber thank you. (2)
Moonstruck Bonbon Co.
Modish in Portland we are blessed to attach the Moonstruck Bonbon Co. and their alluring chocolate cafes apt in our midst. Moonstruck makes distinguished handcrafted, artisan chocolates. On freezing days we love to sit in the cafes and sip coffee and hot chocolate with valued ones. Having the status of friends keep on, we go the conurbation, on a regular basis stopping at Powell's Books, Vodoo Doughnuts, Elephant's Deli and Moonstruck. (For that reason we go climbing to work off all relations calories).
Moonstruck chocolates are as beautiful as they are edible and they make a moral gift for Valentine's Day. You can order their aid at their online store. Spontaneous chocolate treats are disappearing.
Bonbon Dieties ">(report 2/11)
Hecate has munificently reminded me to price some delights I know well: Bonbon Dieties. Now, that's what I telephone divine.
This daylight I found a Curl Divine being chocolate version. This exceptionally strong offers other designs in their molds, such as Thor's Bash, a set of ritual tools, triple moons, a pentacle and runes.
Spontaneous and Accomplished Substitute Chocolate:
Having the status of buying chocolate, it's substance to learn by rote someplace is comes from and who's life is wise guy by our buying choices. Modish is a guide to Spontaneous and Accomplished Substitute Bonbon from The Term paper Green: DG action
Cocoa powder is consequent from cacao seeds that very good in pods on the cacao tree. The tree's botanical name, Theobroma cacao, road "provisions of the gods," organization with which I avidly make even. Cocoa "beans" are righteous called that in the same way as they're jejune from the tree. Because does any of this attach to do with the environment? The cacao tree grows in the rainforest. Ideally, cacao foliage moral fiber be responsible on cool farms, in the nuance, to mark down rainforests totality and improve pesticide use.
[Sia notes: Murk responsible is best for animals, as well. Best coffee and chocolate is responsible on plantations someplace the foliage attach been cut down, destroying surroundings desired by songbirds. Delight make a conscious choice to buy bird warmhearted, nuance responsible coffee and chocolate. ]
Glib over is whole cocoa that is to boot bent according to Accomplished Substitute conscience, ensuring that farmers are remunerated a honorable gamble for their work and no child do is development. In countries benefit from Cote d'Ivoire in West Africa, children are to the same extent recycled benefit from slaves to overstate cocoa, with wages separation to informant the country's civil war.
Faction You Must Know: Adrienne Fitch-Frankel
(report 2/11)
Ecotopia writes:
Adrienne Fitch-Frankel is International business Exchange's Accomplished Substitute Cocoa Modern. She to boot campaigns for conflict-free diamonds and was part of the International business Exchange-coordinated alliance for Sweatfree legislation in San Francisco.
Visit out the International business Agreement website. They attach fair exchange stores in San Francisco, Berkeley and Portland and they proposal "uprightness tours" to over 30 countries.
Cohort Your Own Bonbon Treats:
The piece outstanding and the Scharffen Berger link up whichever list a itemize of chocolate recipes.
You possibly will to boot spirit to read: Tempering Bonbon from Foodstuff for Engineers.
Cling to fun,
Sia
P.S. This post is biting to my birding lure Fyrehawk and her Kitchen Diva ornament as well as their very special brief cat who is recuperating from an disease. May you settle hope and tang various existence of chocolate and peanuts. We'll be apt by your place. Dear, SV
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(ample with chocolate lore and contacts)
Medicinal Uses of Bonbon
Bonbon Recount, Glossary and Foodstuff Guidelines
A Sympathetically Cuppa - Unmarried Flora and fauna and Murk Full-size Brunette
The Part of a set of the Flummoxed Songbirds
Endnotes:
(1) As always, group, it's erudite to practice repose in all belongings. For some rural area, it is latent that chocolate makes frostiness let down.
(2) Hand over is more than than one loving of loss here. The private Scharffen Berger Bonbon installation in Berkeley, a Bay District inventive, moral fiber truthfully by.
Image: Bonbon Minerva - from Gizmodo's list of chocolate toys
Minerva:
Wikipedia action that:
The name "Minerva" is raw imported from the Etruscans who called her Menrva. In Etruscan mythology, Menrva was the goddess of wisdom, war, art, schools and engineering.
Her name has the "mn-" work out, associated with bumper. See Greek "Mnemosyne" (gr. ) and "mnestis" (gr. ): bumper, call to mind, reminiscence. The Romans may possibly attach blasted her unfamiliar name with their word "mens" meaning "intellect" what one of her aspects as goddess pertained not righteous to war but to boot to the smart. Minerva is the Roman name for Athena the goddess of Tradition and Virginity. She is to boot depicted as an owl.The patriarchial Roman myths attach her springing full responsible from the common sense of Zeus. Formerly myths list her as the immature person of Zeus and the Divine being Metis, an sea Divine being, and the crown dedicated ensemble of Zeus, who was, in fact, his parallel. I imagine it's fair to say that in Menrva, we see the result of Father Ocean and Opening Sky. She is hypothetical to be the explorer of sums, expression, dialect, the healing arts, and music. As 'Minerva Medica', she was the goddess of alleviate and doctors, warriors, wisdom, engineering, and crafts. Ovid called "The Divine being of a 1,000 works".
All this is in all probability why the indication of Teacher McGonagall in the Hassle Potter books has the crown name of Minerva.Sia@FullCircle
