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Tim Ferriss – Chocolate Tasting with the Pros – Part 1

Did you know that there is a proper way to eat and taste chocolate? Steps are being considered to this kind of situation to understand better how you can appreciate chocolate tasting events?

Tim Ferriss will show you how you can have free lessons to provide you necessary learning experience that you can have regarding gourmet chocolate. You will be guided on the Scharffen Berger chocolate place that you will surely love.

So enjoy and learn more about satisfaction on chocolate by Tim Ferriss – Chocolate Tasting with the Pros – Part 1

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Posted by Chocoholic - September 2, 2011 at 12:11 pm

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The Chocolate Lovers’ Guide and Tasting Journal Reviews

The Chocolate Lovers’ Guide and Tasting Journal

Please note that the Kindle version does not permit, for obvious reasons, the journal and chocolate wrapper aspects that the book offers.

The Chocolate Lovers’ Guide and Tasting Journal is a non-fiction book combining the fundamentals of chocolate including types of chocolate, varieties of chocolate, storing chocolate, tasting chocolate and your impressions, and a place to record your chocolate’s history and tasting as well as saving your chocolate’s wrapper. It is a device to record your journey through your chocolate world creating a road map taking you back to your cherished chocolate favorites.

The Chocolate Lover’s Guide and Journal is a teaching guide to learn and grow in your chocolate experience and record your journey as you go. The text will cover:

Sight – what to visually experience with your chocolate
Sound – what type of sound you should listen for during your chocolate experience
Touch – how your chocolate should feel between your fingers
Smell – the sense involved so much with taste and how important it is
Mouthfeel – how does the chocolate feel in your mouth, on your tongue
Taste – what flavors do you savor in your mouth, there are usually many complexities to this

The main concept behind The Chocolate Lover’s Guide and Journal is as follows:

Catalog all of your chocolate as you consume it creating an experience, a memory. Record the basics – the chocolatier, the name of the bar, where it was purchased, the date it was purchased, the cost, the type of chocolate and the percentage of cocoa. Record the experience – the sight, sound, touch, smell, mouthfeel and taste. Record anything special you want to note about this chocolate or experience. Remember your favorites chocolates. How many times do we think we will remember the name of something and then forget. Record memorable moments shared over the chocolate – a special event, a bad day made better by chocolate, a vacation or weekend getaway. Each chocolate wrapper page will share a quote able chocolate to make the true chocolate lover smile. You can take this anywhere with you. It becomes part of your life, part of your memories.Please note that the Kindle version does not permit, for obvious reasons, the journal and chocolate wrapper aspects that the book offers.

The Chocolate Lovers’ Guide and Tasting Journal is a non-fiction book combining the fundamentals of chocolate including types of chocolate, varieties of chocolate, storing chocolate, tasting chocolate and your impressions, and a place to record your chocolate’s history and tasting as well as saving your chocolate’s wrapper. It is a device to record your journey through your chocolate world creating a road map taking you back to your cherished chocolate favorites.

The Chocolate Lover’s Guide and Journal is a teaching guide to learn and grow in your chocolate experience and record your journey as you go. The text will cover:

Sight – what to visually experience with your chocolate
Sound – what type of sound you should listen for during your chocolate experience
Touch – how your chocolate should feel between your fingers
Smell – the sense involved so much with taste and how important it is
Mouthfeel – how does the chocolate feel in your mouth, on your tongue
Taste – what flavors do you savor in your mouth, there are usually many complexities to this

The main concept behind The Chocolate Lover’s Guide and Journal is as follows:

Catalog all of your chocolate as you consume it creating an experience, a memory. Record the basics – the chocolatier, the name of the bar, where it was purchased, the date it was purchased, the cost, the type of chocolate and the percentage of cocoa. Record the experience – the sight, sound, touch, smell, mouthfeel and taste. Record anything special you want to note about this chocolate or experience. Remember your favorites chocolates. How many times do we think we will remember the name of something and then forget. Record memorable moments shared over the chocolate – a special event, a bad day made better by chocolate, a vacation or weekend getaway. Each chocolate wrapper page will share a quote able chocolate to make the true chocolate lover smile. You can take this anywhere with you. It becomes part of your life, part of your memories.

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Exotic Chocolate Tasting

This video will talk about their perspective about different chocolate. It will definitely improve your list for chocolate!

Also it will satisfy all your cravings to know what there is to know about exotic chocolate. The video will provide you information on how to enjoy chocolate tasting in a distinctive way.

You will be guided with tips and how to enjoy more with your friends regarding the proper way to do it when conducting occasions like this.

So have fun and learn more on exotic chocolate tasting that can help you discover chocolate in a awesome way.

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Posted by Chocoholic - August 30, 2011 at 10:43 am

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A Sweet Tasting Review of Stephen Lagorce’s ‘Chocolat’

You’d be forgiven for picking up chef Stephen Lagorce’s ‘Chocolat‘ and thinking you were about to unwrap the biggest bar of chocolate you’ll ever see. Lagorce’s book is an effective and equally delicious two sided affair with Chocolate. One side is the methods and styles of the tasting and evaluating experience itself, and the other side explores the various foods that partner well with chocolate, like certain fruits, vegetables and believe it or not even cigars.

Lagorce begins by trying to wean the average taster from the initial conditioned “I like or I don’t like” response to a more educated and objective assessment of chocolate. After the first few pages I could separate my ‘Gustatory, Olfactory and Physical’ sensations, the three sensations that combine to result in taste. We are even treated to a “tasting glossary” helping us to start labelling these new sensations with words I’d never think of describing chocolate with such as ‘Aggressive, Animal, Grilled or even Acid’.

‘Chocolat’ shows us exactly what criteria to use in rating a good piece of chocolate and the tools that we need to go about it. I was presented with the entirely new idea of tasting with my eyes and ears, and until now was completely unaware that one of the ways a chocolate could be judged is on the sound it makes upon being broken. In fact, even half way through I was very confident I could plan and execute a perfect chocolate tasting event from my own home. Every last detail is taken care of, from how many bowls might be needed, spatulas, spoons or forks, what temperature to serve the samples, and even the best time of the day to carry out an event. The early chapters certainly provide an informative peek through the door of professional tasters and chocolate veterans.

‘Chocolat’ also opens our eyes to the major types of chocolate and their forms found in the culinary world. The descriptions are written with the sweet-toothed food lover at heart, the layout is simple and yet even after the first few pages I was left feeling I knew everything there was to know about the tasty treat. I am now thoroughly impressed I can tell apart my ‘Specialty’ brands from the ‘Single estate chocolates’ as opposed to making my selection based on which looks the more appealing. What a pleasant surprise that such a favourite food most of us take for granted can be viewed in such a delicate and cultured manner.

Things that go with chocolate

In the “Good Things To Go With Chocolate” chapter you’ll find an unusual assortment of foods and drinks you never thought could be paired with chocolate without a sense of humor. It even tells you which cigars will go well with certain types of chocolate, the description of the taste and aroma alone gave me the urge to light up my nearest Montecristo. I was also surprised to find that everyday vegetables such as fennel, red pepper and avocado amongst others go very well with an injection of chocolate though I haven’t quite the courage to try these combinations just yet. So for the brave adventurers out there, there are some gems hidden away in this particular chapter.

The recipe part of the book consists of around 40 ridiculously sinful ideas to satisfy the sweetest palate, ranging from a mouth-watering ganache to butter chocolate squares. All to be enjoyed of course while sipping on a decadent Viennese hot chocolate. The recipes are quick and easy to follow, and those of us who like to see what the end result should (or might look) like will surely not be disappointed by Éric Fénot’s stunning full page eye candy photographs. There are many chocolate books on the market but never have I come across one that so shamefully exhibits the tempting and delicious lure of this humble little bean, the countless pictures almost melt from each page and invoke all the senses required to bring them to life.

The final chapters of Lagorce’s book gives good practical advice on how to buy chocolate, looking after it and also what types of strange and tantalising varieties of chocolate you’d expect to find in different parts of the world. Lagorce has given us an easy to use and fairly complete book with fresh takes on the subject of tasting and cooking with chocolate, accompanied with plenty of recipes and great tips to turn the average ‘just give me any old chocolate now’ person into a real connoisseur. Be warned however this book could be seriously hazardous to the cleanliness of your kitchen. The aroma of this wonderful little bean will start permeating through your home in no time at all, and no more will that bar of chocolate disappear before you’ve tuned into all of your senses. I would highly recommend this fascinating book to anyone who’s ever eaten a bar of chocolate but as for me, it’s time to unleash my three taste sensations on a chocolate roulade!

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Posted by Chocoholic - August 29, 2011 at 8:59 am

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Learn About Wine and Chocolate Pairing and Tasting

Did you know that there are ways of enjoying Wine and Chocolate together? Well this video will show you how you enjoy having a wine and chocolate tasting event.

Our experts Evan Goldstein, showed Co-host, David Rogow the are of matching the two substance that we all can have fun. Also, in the video the San Diego Bay wine and Food Festival event will be shown to you so you can have a better understanding on how this event is being celebrated.

So learn more about wine and chocolate pairing and tasting.

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Posted by Chocoholic - August 17, 2011 at 2:26 pm

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Discover Chocolate: The Ultimate Guide to Buying, Tasting, and Enjoying Fine Chocolate

Discover Chocolate: The Ultimate Guide to Buying, Tasting, and Enjoying Fine Chocolate

There’s a difference between a chocoholic and a chocophile, and Clay Gordon is decidedly in the latter category. It’s not enough for him to simply love this rich indulgence; he is equally addicted to the finer points of choosing it, just as a wine aficionado enjoys researching different varietals and developing a taste for particularly fine ones.

In Discover Chocolate, Gordon opens a world that extends far beyond cookbooks and coffee-table books that feature assorted gooey shots. Yes, his primer is packed with more than a hundred gorgeous photographs of chocolate and truffles, but this is a guide that also includes a handy rating system, a field guide for discerning among different types and styles of chocolates, an overview of how cacao becomes chocolate (including maps of where cacao is grown), advice for pairing chocolate and wine, and, perhaps most important of all, how and where to shop for the best chocolate in the world.

A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing, and Clay Gordon is there to help you relish every drop of it, discerning why you like certain types but not others and generating a personal list of favorites. This is the book every true chocolate enthusiast has been craving.

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Should i be nervous because i am going to a chocolate tasting party?

Question by George O: Should i be nervous because i am going to a chocolate tasting party?
i have a chocolate tasting party to go to today and i am really nervous. Should i be?

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Lol what, There is nothing to be nervous about since that is basically what you guys will do, to taste chocolates! unless the hosts is planned a surprise something.

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