VALENTINE’S DAY GIFTS: VDay Minus 12 ~ Chocolate & Bacon

Bacon brownies? Sure—chocolate and bacon are a great combo. Buy them at EmbraceSweets.com. For traditional chocolate, we love Mo’s Bacon Bar from VosgesChocolate.com. Applewood smoked bacon and alder wood smoked salt in 41% cacao deep milk chocolate. It rocks. If you want bacon chocolate in a more gifty form, the same chocolate is made into…
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PRODUCT: VitaMuffin VitaTops

People who like muffins, chocolate, muffin tops and reduced-calorie foods have discovered VitaMuffins (read our review). The 100-calorie chocolate muffin tops are so popular that VitaMuffin expanded the options from the original Deep Chocolate to Chocolate Fig, Dark Chocolate Pomegranate, Double Chocolate Dream (with white chips), Fudgy Peanut Butter Chip, and Triple Chocolate Chunk. There’s…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Uli Mana Raw Cacao

For everyone wondering about the healthy food picks of the last few weeks, January is “health month” at THE NIBBLE. That’s the brief hiatus between the six weeks of holiday eating that end the old year and the Valentine’s Day delights of the new year. During “health month,” we try not to tempt people away…
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NEWS: What Happened To The Chesapeake Blue Crab

Maryland’s iconic blue crab is on the list of the Top 25 Things Vanishing From America according to WalletPop.com. In 2007, the Chesapeake Bay saw the lowest harvest since 1945, just 22 million pounds; 40 years ago the harvest was 96 million pounds. There are only about 120 million crabs in the Bay, and officials…
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CONTEST: Scharffen Berger Chocolate Recipe Contest

If you’ve got an exciting and different sweet or savory chocolate recipe, you have until January 4 to enter January 4 to enter it. This year’s requirement includes “adventure” ingredient: basil, black or pink peppercorns, black sesame seed, cacao nibs, chili pepper (fresh or whole dried), coconut milk, coriander, jicama, kaffir lime leaf, mango, matcha…
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