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Welcome to the Official Website for Chocolate
Chocolate is all we sell. Dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate, chocolate fudge, chocolate truffles and creams, and chocolate assortments are all part of the extraordinary assortment on our website. Once you shop with us for the first time, you will never shop any other place. Why? Well it starts with our selection of over 13,000 products from over 300 manufacturers. It is followed up with shopping on our site with "Best of the Net" navigation -- you can shop by type of chocolate, or search by manufacturer, what could be easier. Top all of this off with the most secure checkout system on the internet (provided to us in association with Amazon.com) and you can see why our customers keep coming back time after time to shop with us. Take your time, shop our site and join them in searching through one of the largest collections of chocolate on the internet. We hope to have you as a part of our family of satisfied customers.
Chocolate for All Occassions
We sell chocolate for every occassion you can imagine -- birthday, anniversary, graduation, or just because he or she is just so deserving you couldn't resist. You can find chocolate in flavors from dark to light. In addition to these flavors we have gifts based on type of chocolate product. If we don't have it, it may not exist. Try us and let us know what you think.
Chocolate From Many Manufacturers
We sell over 13,000 different types of chocolate from over 300 manufacturers. It is hard to imagine finding a place where you can find a greater selection of chocolate than your new favorite store - The Official Website for Chocolate. The name says it all, when you are looking for chocolate, come to the place that specializes in everything chocolate.
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Chocolate News
Huntington man finds do-it-yourself works best to make his specialty chocolate (Charleston Daily Mail)\HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- If its specially crafted chocolates you crave, Walt Lewis believes he has just what any chocoholic needs. He has started his own chocolate-making enterprise - ChiamMaya Custom Crafted Chocolate. Its chocolate made in the Mexican tradit...
Chocolate, something to run for (Republican-American)\My friend runs for the chocolate milk. She also enjoys the toned muscles, low body fat and sense of relaxation that comes with long-distance running. But a tall glass of milk infused with gooey Hershey's syrup is what really motivates her up the punishing hills of Middletown.
Everything, yes, even chocolate, tastes better with bacon (Chicago Sun-Times)\Here are three little words that might give the staunchest snacker pause: chocolate-covered bacon. It sounds so wrong. But it tastes just right, says Joseph Marini III, a fourth-generation candy maker who is selling the bacon bonbons at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk seaside amusement park.
Bacon makes everything better -- even chocolate? (The Courier News)\SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- Here are three little words that might give the staunchest snacker pause: Chocolate-covered bacon.
Chocolate and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (BellaOnline)\As well as being a wonderful food, chocolate may have real potential to treat a frustrating and debilitating disorder.
Side of bacon, dipped in chocolate, hold the eggs - Summer fairs bring out unusual pairings (Missoulian)\Freshly made chocolate-covered bacon is shown for sale at Marini’s candy shop at the Boardwalk amusement park in Santa Cruz, Calif. Chocolate-coated bacon is just the latest incarnation of the wackier-the-better fair food philosophy.
Papa John's has a new chocolate dessert to delight pizza fans (Lancaster Online)\This week I reached out for Chocolate Pastry Delights — here we go again, dessert from a pizza-delivery chain — at Papa John's, America's No. 3 pizza twirler, with 3,000 restaurants coast to coast.I don't know why the Big 3 pizza monarchies (Pizza Hut, Domino's ...
Recipe: Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Ice Cream (Contra Costa Times)\Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Ice CreamServes 8 1½ cups whole milk1½ cups heavy cream½ cup sugar2 large egg yolks, at room temperature1 teaspoon vanilla extract¾ cup mini semi-sweet chocolate chips2/3 cup peanut butter1.
Recipe: Dark Chocolate Ice Cream (Contra Costa Times)\Dark Chocolate Ice CreamServes 71½ cups whole milk1½ cups heavy cream8 ounces semi sweet chocolate3 large egg yolks, at room temperature2 tablespoon white sugar1 teaspoon vanilla extractPinch kosher salt¼ cup Cointreau or Grand Marnier (optional)1.
Cocoa News
Cocoa demand in India rises to almost double (Channel NewsAsia)\TAMIL NADU: The demand for cocoa in India is on the rise. Farmers in Tamil Nadu are realizing that they can get a good price for their crop and they are starting to cultivate cocoa instead of traditional rice and oil seeds.
MARKET TALK: ICE Cocoa Slips In Light Range-Bound Trade (INO News)\1010 EDT [Dow Jones] - ICE cocoa futures are trading modestly lower after bumping up against resistance levels in thin range trade, an analyst says. Most-active Dec cocoa is down $10 at $2,661 a metric ton, stuck between the $2,650 intraday low and the $2,699 high.
Special package for cocoa communities (Ghanaweb.com)\Between 350 and 400 cocoa-growing communities, especially those in deprived areas, are to be provided with solar street lights by November.
Cocoa Beach's Rios ends run (Florida Today)\Cocoa Beach resident Nancy Rios capped her 2008 Olympic Games run by placing 22nd in the final preliminary windsurfing event Tuesday afternoon at the Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center in China.
Flooding lessens in West Cocoa neighborhood (Florida Today)\Waters appear to be receding in the flood-stricken West Cocoa neighborhood along Stratford and Hathaway drives, the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office reported.
Cocoa Beach pastor campaigns for State House (Florida Baptist Witness)\COCOA BEACH (FBW)—Few Florida Baptists could have forgotten the haunting image of a steeple piercing the roof of an east-coast church after Hurricane Frances in 2004.
Kufuor calls for ECOWAS initiative to fight cocoa disease (Ghanaweb.com)\Tema, Aug. 19, GNA - President John Agyekum Kufuor on Tuesday called for an ECOWAS initiative to combat the swollen shoot virus disease, a major threat to the sub-region's cocoa industry.
Candy News
Police investigate charity candy theft (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)\Myrtle Beach Police are looking for suspects who smashed the front window of a local store and stole a charity candy box as well as money from the register.
Idaho Candy Co. contest winner: Berry-filled garnet edges out 250 sweet ideas (The Idaho Statesman)\When Kelly Gates, a graphic designer from Jerome, heard that Idaho Candy Co.
Idaho Candy co. contest winner: Berry-filled garnet edges out 250 sweet ideas (The Idaho Statesman)\Candy contest winner Kelly Gates says the star garnet represents what she loves about her home state. "You go camping, what do you do? You look around on the ground and you find rocks and feathers, especially the kids," said Gates, who is trained in biology and in art. "It's very possible to get a decent gemstone just from walking around and looking."
Hershey's Candy Price Hike (WIFR Rockford)\Hershey's Candy Price Hike
Bacon makes everything better - even chocolate- (The Intelligencer)\Candy-coated breakfast meats is just the latest craze in what seems like a never-ending cycle.
Got Chocolate?
Chocolate refers to a number of raw and processed foods that are derived from the seed of the tropical cacao tree. The seeds of the cacao tree have an intense bitter taste, and must be processed using a heat and a grinding process to create the flavor billions have come to love. It is only after being roasted and ground, that the chocolate or cocoa, delivers the intoxicating flavor.
Much of the chocolate we consume is made into candy bars that combine cocoa solids, fats (cocoa butter), and sugar. Chocolate has grown in popularity over time to become one of the most treasured flavors in the world. Chocolate has become the traditional food gift on certain holidays: heart shaped chocolate for Valentine's Day, chocolate Santas for Christmas, chocolate bunnies and eggs for Easter, and chocolate coins for Hanukkah. Chocolate is also used in cold (chocolate milk) and hot (hot cocoa) beverages.
Do you ever wonder why chocolate makes you feel so good when you eat them? Well, there is a scientific reason why this happens. Chocolate contains alkaloids such as theobromine and phenethylamine, which have physiological effects on the body. It also contains flavanoids and antioxidants, both of which are linked to healthier living.
Do you feel more amorous when eating chocolate? A study reported by the BBC indicated that melting chocolate in one's mouth produced an increase in brain activity and heart rate that was more intense than that associated with passionate kissing, and also lasted four times as long after the activity had ended. For a more pedestrian benefit, scientists have discovered that chocolate, eaten in moderation, can also lower blood pressure.
So don't delay, buy some chocolate today!
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