Author Archive: Ashleigh Rader
Communities Turn Chocolate into Charity
December 22, 2014
Chocolate has been in the news a lot lately. As the holiday season is upon, chocolate-themed events for the benefit of others have been cropping up all over the country. To help spread good tidings and great cheer, I’d like to share a few of them with you this week.
Boy’s ‘Chocolate Bar’ Book Raises $1M
December 19, 2014
Suffering from a rare liver disorder, 9 year old Jonah undergoes treatments every few hours. The disease, GSD Type 1b, affects only 500 children worldwide.
GSD Type 1b affects literally one in a million, and is an incurable genetic condition. Those born with the disease lack the appropriate liver enzyme required to turn glycogen into glucose. This means they cannot properly regulate their blood sugar levels.
Chocolate Christmas Cookie Recipes
December 17, 2014
Christmas is the time of year for good will, good cheer, and good baking! Have a look at our assimilation of chocolate Christmas cookie recipes. You're sure to find one or two to bring any holiday party host, or to enjoy with friends and family at home! Enjoy...
Pill Makes Flatulence Smell Like Chocolate
December 12, 2014
This unique odor cure originates from the creative mind of Christian Poincheval, a 65-year-old artist and inventor from the village of Gesvres in western France.
As stated by Mark Rylander in The Huffington Post’s story, “[Poincheval] has claimed to have solved one of humanity’s most pungent problems.”
Peppermint Ice Cream Brownie Bars Recipe
December 10, 2014
Ice cream is my favorite - no matter if it's 85 degrees outside or 25. Here's a great recipe to enjoy your ice cream indoors this holiday season.
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Chocolate Factory to Open in D.C.
December 5, 2014
There’s buzz in the news about Washington D.C. getting its first chocolate factory next summer. We can only hope there will be a chocolate river moat surrounding the whole thing!
Founders of the company “Concept C”, Sarah and Colin Hartman, are the chocolatiers planning this endeavor. Sarah is a culinary school graduate, and her husband Colin is a Wharton MBA grad and former U.S. Marine.
Eat Chocolate, Build Memory
November 28, 2014
Doctors just announced, at the Scientific Sessions 2014 in Chicago, results of a study linking high consumption of trans fats with poorer memory on word recall tests.
Leader of the experiment, Beatrice Golomb, stated “trans fats were most strongly linked to worse memory in young and middle-aged men during their working and career-building years.”
Now, aside from education and depression, doctors only took two food variables into consideration during this experiment – trans fats, and chocolate.
Chocolate Just Made the Endangered Foods List
November 21, 2014
With the holidays just around the corner, chocolate goodies and candies span as far as the eye can see.
In the grocery store, we stroll past red and green colored chocolates in all our favorite varieties. We’re busily searching for recipes to bring to our neighborhood bake swap, or fantasizing about the goodies grandma has in store for us this year.
Can you imagine a holiday without chocolate? If you think that would simply be the end of the world, you might want to stock up on your favorites, because we’re in for a chocolate shortage.
Where’s Wonka?
November 14, 2014
Buzz at the Daily Mail, an online UK news portal, is that a real-life Willy Wonka has been discovered, and he is taking the world of chocolate by storm.
Currently in Australia launching his new line of chocolates, “Willie’s Cacao”, Willie Harcourt Cooze is a UK native who is seeking to bring our sugar-ridden palates back to earth with the taste of only the finest cacao.