Yay, we were sent a batch of Five Star Bars at work today because of an article City Guides did on regional candy makers. Mmmm, they're so good.

Quoted: Lake Champlain Chocolates makes gourmet chocolate candy bars, including Five Star Bars. We start with Belgian chocolate and add the finest all natural ingredients. All of our chocolates are crafted in small batches just before delivery to ensure freshness.

Wow, the new Starbucks-branded line won't just be chocolate - it'll also include dried fruits, nuts, herbs, and spices.

Quoted: Starbucks has thrust its weight behind the growing palate for premium chocolate with plans to enter the market in conjunction with struggling US chocolate maker Herhsey's.

Oh man, this chocolate sounds amazing...

Quoted: Call it chocolate with a pedigree. Like a good Bordeaux or Chianti, some chocolate comes from a particular place; the Indonesian island of Java or Venezuela's Sur del Lago, for example.

Oooh, book reading about chocolate AND a tasting. It's this Tuesday. Anyone wanna go? It's Nov. 7 at 6:00 at Fran's Chocolates at the UVillage.

Quoted: Meet Mort Rosenblum, author of Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light (North Point Press) at this special booksigning, talk and chocolate tasting at Fran's Chocolates at University Village.

Mmmm, gods and goddesses made out of chocolate... I can't decide whether or not this is totally irreverent, but the chocolates are beautiful and they do seem to cover a wide range of belief systems... Also, I do like chocolate!

Quoted: Chocolate Deities is a small company making exquisite handmade molded high quality chocolates that honor and celebrate those gods and goddesses of love and luxury, joy and happiness, compassion, peace, serenity, healing, and fertility of the body and imagination.

NY Times article about the upcoming "chocolate revolution" in America, including two recipes at the end...

Quoted: If Chloé Doutre-Roussel has her way, bad chocolate will be on its way out.

that's it, i'm publishing a book about a chocolate-based diet. ha.