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March 12, 2012
Romera: Looking Back at the Brief Life of New York's Neurogastronomy Restaurant
Over the weekend, Romera, the "neurogastronomy" restaurant located in the basement of the Dream Hotel, shuttered after only six months in business. For those who had eaten at the restaurant recently, the news didn't come as any big surprise. Although the chef, Dr. Miguel Sanchez Romera, had modifie ... More >>
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February 9, 2012
What Gals Really Want for Valentine's Day: Luxury Chocolates
Williamsburg's taciturn Mast Brothers know just what I'm talking about. This time of year always presents a dilemma for straight boys and gay girls: how to celebrate Valentine's Day -- the only holiday focused on carnal love and desire -- with your significant other? Taking her out to dinner is t ... More >>
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February 1, 2012
Dorie Greenspan's CookieBar Returns for a Valentine's Weekend Pop-Up
More good news on the sweets front: Dorie and Josh Greenspan's CookieBar is returning for a pop-up at Mizu Salon just in time for Valentine's Day! All who missed out on the last batch of World Peace Cookies and Jammers now can get the ideal sweet treat for their loved ones (better than a Russell St ... More >>
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January 31, 2012
Hot Chocolate Month Starts Tomorrow at City Bakery
Stephbond / FlickrWhen it's cold outside, go for some warm cocoaChocoholics, rejoice: The happiest time of the year is almost here! Sure, February might be a crap time of year for some people, namely those with Seasonal Affective Disorder and all single people around the 14th, but for cocoa l ... More >>
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January 10, 2012
It's National Bittersweet Chocolate Day
Did you know that today is National Bittersweet Chocolate Day? Cool, right? It's also National Hot Tea Month ... as well as National Oatmeal Month and National Soup Month. Who came up with this brilliance?
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December 16, 2011
Chocolate 'Enrobed' Baguette Slices From Pain Quotidien, Gift Suggestion #12
With their chocolate covered baguette slices, P.Q. has found a way to turn shit into Shinola. Just because we're making Xmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa gift suggestions, doesn't mean we can't make fun of the very gifts we're recommending. We're schizy that way. And here's a case in point.
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December 14, 2011
NYE Guide: Drinks
Pour one out at these mainstays
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October 26, 2011
5 Discontinued Candies That Once Made Halloween Rock
Gone, but not forgottenHalloween is basically synonymous with candy. Ok, well for adults, it's synonymous with alcohol and slutty costumes. But when we were kids, it was all about candy, candy, and more candy. Yet many of the delicious treats from our youth have been discontinued, and only ... More >>
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October 24, 2011
Chocolate Chip Cookie Showdown: Testing Recipes From Three Cookie Books
Lauren ShockeyLeft to right: The Cookiepedia, The Treats Truck Baking Book, Cookies at Home with The Culinary Institute of America Whether you like 'em chewy and studded with tiny milk chocolate morsels or crispy and stuffed with big bittersweet chunks, there's really no such thing as a bad c ... More >>
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September 22, 2011
Battle of the Teeny-Weeny Chocolates: Cafe-Tasse Extra Noir Vs. Bug Bites Organic Dark
Hello! My name is Bob, and I'm a chocoholic.
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September 16, 2011
My 10 Best Fat Pants Fridays
Rebecca MarxCake Shop's peanut butter bomb. I have spent the last 18 months or so eating untold amounts of fat and sugar, often but not always in the name of Fat Pants Friday. This column has given me a great excuse to coddle my sweet tooth, and more importantly, to visit and revisit some o ... More >>
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September 15, 2011
Battle of the Fancy Madison Avenue Chocolate Bars: Ladurée vs. La Maison du Chocolat (Plus Some Macaron Porn, Too)
Lauren ShockeyCalling all chocoholicsIf you're going to spend $10 on a chocolate bar, it had better be a damn good one. Or so you'd hope. But what do you do when the market becomes flooded with overpriced chocolate bars? How can you know how to best blow your weekly paycheck on cacao? Wel ... More >>
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June 14, 2011
This Town Isn't Big Enough For Two Frozen Hot Chocolates
Dunkin DonutsFor when you don't want to pay $8.95 for a chocolate drinkFrozen hot chocolate, Serendipity 3's claim to fame (though there, it's spelled Frrrozen, because, it's, like, extra cold) is suddenly at the middle of a controversy now that Dunkin Donuts has come up with a frozen hot cho ... More >>
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March 9, 2011
Your Peanut Butter Might Be Poisoned. Here Are 5 Sweet PB Treats That Definitely Aren't.
Skip the Skippy, but not peanut butter altogether. Say it ain't so, Skippy. Can a PB&J sandwich made with this all-American Kraft brand really make you sick? Well, no illness have been reported yet, but jars of the stuff are still being recalled due to possible salmonella contamination. But d ... More >>
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February 17, 2011
Quicos de Chocolate, aka Sweet-Salty Deliciousness
Lauren ShockeyThe easiest and tastiest way to gain a dress size Valentine's Day may have ended, but that doesn't mean the chocolate fun is over. While ambling through the Grand Central Station outpost of Murray's Cheese yesterday, we chanced upon quicos de chocolate, otherwise known as choco ... More >>
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February 9, 2011
Battle of the Valentine's Day Chocolates: Russell Stover vs. Whitman's Sampler
Lauren ShockeyLife is like a box of (V-Day) chocolates?It's almost time for Chocolate Day! We mean Valentine's Day! For this week's Battle of the Dishes, we're comparing heart-shaped boxes of chocolates--Russell Stover and its drugstore rival, Whitman's Sampler. Two classics which beg the ... More >>
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January 27, 2011
Dorie and Josh Greenspan Will Return With Another CookieBar Pop-Up
Rebecca MarxSome of the delights found at last year's CookieBar. Here's some sweet, sweet news for a cold, cold day: Cookbook author and all-around baking goddess Dorie Greenspan is bringing her CookieBar pop-up store back for another stint on Park Avenue.
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January 20, 2011
Ask the Critics: Where Can I Get Chocolate for Valentine's Day?
MarieBelleSeduce her with sugar.Brian G. asks: I want to get my foodie girlfriend some chocolates for Valentine's Day, so I can't get Godiva or anything too mass market. Where can I find a nice assortment of chocolates? Dear Brian: What a good boyfriend you are, thinking so far in advance! ... More >>
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January 14, 2011
Sampling Thought-to-Be-Extinct Chocolate
Lauren ShockeyWhat's old is new again. Thought to be extinct and essentially lost for the past hundred years, the Pure Nacional variety of the cacao tree was just recently rediscovered in Peru. Which is great news for chocoholics, because this type of tree was renowned a century ago and was ... More >>
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December 27, 2010
The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday
Welcome to The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday, where we endeavor to remember the very best thing we stuffed down our gullets over the past 24 hours. Why? Because the only thing better than enjoying a meal is wallowing in the memory of one savored in the recent past. Today's fond reminiscences ... Chan ... More >>
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December 17, 2010
Fat Pants Friday: Shake Shack's Salted Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate
Hot chocolate is a beverage that inspires fierce and unshakable allegiances. The thick-and-sludgy vs. thin-and-milky debate shows no signs of abating, just as the comparative merits of bittersweet vs. milk chocolate are one of the dessert world's hoariest old chestnuts. And now, we can now ... More >>
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December 14, 2010
Serious Eats Ranks the City's Best Hot Chocolates
seriouseats.comHot chocolate war! Serious Eats just published their list of the city's ten best hot chocolates, which is great because nothing is better on a cold day than a mug of hot, chocolatey goodness. But of course, you would already know the city's top ten, thanks to Fork in the Road' ... More >>
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November 3, 2010
CHOCOLATE RUNWAY
Childhood sweet tooth, meet grown-up taste
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October 13, 2010
Canadian Candy: 11 Sweets You Can't Get this Side of the Border
Canada's Crunchie bar: not for Yanks?For Canadian expats living in the U.S., Halloween can be a painful reminder of all the sweet snacks of their youth that remain largely unavailable this side of the border. Some of them stock up when they go home and smuggle their favorite goodies back. Oth ... More >>
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August 19, 2010
Battle of the East Village Vegan Ice Creams: Stogo v. Lula's Sweet Apothecary
Lula's cone, with peanut butter fudge on top, Drumstick on the bottom. Last week, Battle of the Dishes turned its attentions to the newfangled popsicle. This week, with the heat of August still bearing down upon us, we travel to the East Village to explore another corner of the frozen treats ... More >>
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August 13, 2010
Bodega Frozen Treats
King Cone by Good HumorSometimes you want a roasted plum People's Pop, but other times you'd just rather stuff your face in a junky sugar-bomb from Good Humor. Any old bodega is likely to have a long, low cooler filled with all sorts of cheap frozen treats--reach in, and what you come up wi ... More >>
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June 21, 2010
The Best Chocolate Cake in the World? "As a Matter of Fact, It Sucks."
Call your business the Best Chocolate Cake in the World and you might as well slap a target sign on the window, particularly in New York, where there's a) already a lot of superlative chocolate cake and b) a lot of opinionated people. But that doesn't seem to have bothered the Best Chocolate ... More >>
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May 24, 2010
Jacques Torres Ice Cream Sandwich
The ice cream sandwich gleams in the hot sun of last week with vanilla ice cream. Summer is nearly upon us, and with it comes an obsession with frozen treats. Count among the newer and better ones Jacques Torres's ice cream sandwich.
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May 13, 2010
Food Curated Turns Its Lens on NuNu Chocolates
The Self-Taught Chocolatiers: NuNu Chocolates from SkeeterNYC on Vimeo. The latest local business to get its Food Curated close-up is NuNu Chocolates, Justine Pringle and Andy Laird's three-year-old Brooklyn chocolate shop. "With our chocolate, the checklist for me was that I had to immediately fee ... More >>
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April 27, 2010
Chocolate Lovers More Likely to Be Depressed
In a serious blow to fans of Cathy, it turns out that the more chocolate you eat, the more likely it is that you're depressed.
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April 7, 2010
Pichet Ong Debuts Dessert Menu at the Bubble Lounge Tomorrow
Andrew ScrivaniOng's chocolate layer cake with rasberries and creamThe Bubble Lounge (228 West Broadway) has been quietly pouring Champagne for 14 years, but tomorrow they're adding a dessert menu from Spot sweets maven Pichet Ong.
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March 31, 2010
Battle of the Chocolate Easter Bunnies: Jacques Torres Vs. Russell Stover
The two bunnies--Jacques Torres on the left, Russell Stover on the right--face off in a preliminary photo. "In the left corner, weighing in at 4 ounces, the Jacques Torres Easter Bunny," said the white-chocolate ref, pausing a moment to cinch up his licorice-colored pants, then turning towar ... More >>
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February 19, 2010
Our 10 Best Hot Chocolates
MarieBelle's hot chocolate will coat your stomach like it coats the side of this cup. With the snow that's still festering on the ground about to be augmented by another deposit from the heavens, it seems an ideal time to consider the merits of hot chocolate. The cups available in New York a ... More >>
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January 25, 2010
The Early Word: The Dessert Truck's DT Works
DT Works' creme brulee, crust properly blowtorched. Last Friday, after a five-month hiatus, Jerome Chang's Dessert Truck was resurrected as DT Works, an airy, minimally but handsomely decorated storefront on Clinton Street. With its white walls and wooden tables, it even looks a bit like its ... More >>
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December 28, 2009
Definition Addictive Chocolates Coming to Mulberry Street
The window of Definition Addictive, a new chocolate store coming to Mulberry StreetThe new year will bring a new chocolate shop to Nolita: according to a large cardboard sign taped to its window, 284 Mulberry Street will be the new home of Definition Addictive, a store and bakery selling a wi ... More >>
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December 28, 2009
The Early Word: Chinatown Cake Club
The Chinatown Cake Club's first menu Normally, the Early Word visits brick and mortar establishments whose whereabouts and opening hours are accessible to the general public. But at a time when it seems that every other baker or wannabe baker is attempting to recreate more or less the same fo ... More >>
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December 10, 2009
Cocoa V's Pamela Blackwell Talks About How to Make Vegan Truffles, the Nut Cheese Phenomenon, and Fakin' Bacon
In 2006, Pamela Blackwell opened her first restaurant, Blossom Restaurant & Cafe, in Chelsea, and won a devoted following for her organic, vegan cuisine. Two weeks ago, Blackwell opened Cocoa V down the street from Blossom (which has a sister location on the Upper West Side, and beginning ne ... More >>
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December 8, 2009
Crazy Expensive Oriol Balaguer Chocolates From Barcelona Make U.S. Debut
Pretty is as pretty costsMidtown's Borne Confections (Matt Damon racing through the streets of Paris pursued by a chocolate truffle?) has just received its first shipment of Oriol Balaguer chocolates, representing the U.S. debut of the Barcelona-based chocolatier, who spent seven years at el ... More >>
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November 16, 2009
Cuckoo for Cocoa at the Brooklyn Chocolate Experiment
Eric Harvey BrownProfessional pastry chefs Catherine Carlisle and Diana Holland's miniature chocolate cakes. Brooklyn was awash in sugar-shocked hipsters yesterday, some 350 of them packing the Bell House for its first-ever Brooklyn Chocolate Experiment. The consensus among some at Sunday's e ... More >>
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November 13, 2009
Battle of the Dishes: Bean to Bar Chocolate Bars From Jacques Torres and Mast Brothers
There's a reason that very few chocolatiers can claim to manufacture their chocolate from bean to bar. Transforming raw cacao beans to molded bars is a time- and space-consuming process that doesn't lend itself to the snug confines of most New York chocolate shops. The fact that it takes ab ... More >>
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November 3, 2009
Recapping the Chocolate Show, Morsel by Morsel
One of William Dean's delectables.Bowls of cacao beans, vats of liquid chocolate, and stacks of truffles invaded the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea this past weekend as the Chocolate Show touched down in New York. French event planners Sylvie Douce and Francoise Jeantet have taken their tra ... More >>
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October 27, 2009
Payard Is Resurrected, Amongst the Family Jewels
New York Social DiaryFrancois Payard encourages womanly excess. La Fabricant brings the news that Francois Payard is back. The illustrious pastry chef's Upper East Side restaurant and patisserie closed in April following a rent dispute, leaving socialites and sugar fiends in a state of mourni ... More >>
Voice Choices
October 27, 2009
DEATH BY CHOCOLATE
A show that would make Willy Wonka jealous
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October 16, 2009
Cabrito/Fatty Crab Kiosk Will Bring Fattiness to You
If you're in the Flatiron District, the Fatty Crab/Cabrito kiosk parked at the Madison Square Market wants to come to you. For the next two weeks, they'll provide delivery service from 23rd Street to 28th Street between Park and Sixth avenues. Customers can call or text orders to 646-355-6376. Click ... More >>
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February 4, 2009
More Carb-Loading Activities!
Between City Bakery's (3 West 18th Street) Hot Chocolate Festival, Clinton St. Baking Company's (4 Clinton Street) Pancake Month, and general Valentine's candy, carb-loading possibilities abound this month. The latest one combines chocolate with booze!From February 13th to the 20th, Las Rambles (170 ... More >>
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January 30, 2009
To Do This Weekend: Drink Beer Hot Chocolate
While it looks like the weather will be getting somewhat warmer this weekend, it's still cold; it's still winter. Luckily City Bakery's (3 West 18th Street) 17th Annual Hot Chocolate Festival gets underway this weekend. Saturday, January 31st is opening night. The bakery will be open until midnight ... More >>
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December 12, 2006
Fat Tuesday: Chocolate-Coated Edition
While it looks like the weather will be getting somewhat warmer this weekend, it's still cold; it's still winter. Luckily City Bakery's (3 West 18th Street) 17th Annual Hot Chocolate Festival gets underway this weekend. Saturday, January 31st is opening night. The bakery will be open until midnight ... More >>
NYC Life
May 30, 2006
Chocolate Chocolate Chic
Haute and Cold: An ice cream taste test
NYC Life
April 4, 2006
Cookies of Affliction
A stroll down macaroon lane
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November 25, 2003
Hot for Santa
A brief but startling history of the chocolate Santa Claus
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