The cocoa nut and the chocolate it produces is a versatile plant and food source: it’s been used as currency, in liquid form as an offering to the gods, and as the food that represents love, dominating Valentine’s Day sales…. Read More
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How Do You Take Your Chocolate?
The way people take their chocolate is much like the way they take their coffee: pure but slightly bitter, sweet, or with a touch of milk. But how can candy companies measure exactly how consumers want their chocolate to taste?… Read More
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Get Smart – Eat Chocolate, Win a Nobel Prize: Baltimore Candy Company
When Nobel Prizes were being issued this past October, Dr. Franz H. Messerli, a cardiologist at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, ventured to suggest that eating chocolate correlates with becoming a laureate. In a note printed in the… Read More
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Choosing Healthy Chocolate
We’ve been taking some time out lately on the blog to pay homage to the beneficial, disease blasting aspects of one of the candies we love best: chocolate. Thanks to the plethora of current research being conducted on the advantages… Read More
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Magic Beans: How Cocoa Improves Cardiovascular Health
Cocoa beans processed into cocoa solids could give the “magic” beans in Jack and the Beanstalk a run for their money with their antioxidant power that can help fight high blood pressure, heart disease, arterial plaque, cancer, and stroke. Dark… Read More
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Chocoholics Rejoice: Why Chocolate is Good for Your Health
We reach for chocolate as a temporary remedy for heartache and emotional headaches, but as it turns out, dark chocolate is proven to be a cure for potentially long-term health issues as well. Cacao – the main ingredient in dark… Read More
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Satisfying Studies on Sweets: Chocolate Benefits
Chocolate, the decadent dessert food made from fermented and roasted cocao beans has been coveted by humans for centuries. The word “chocolate” comes from the term “xocoatl,” of the ancient Aztecs, who thought it valuable enough to use it as… Read More
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Wockenfuss Candy: Best of Baltimore 2012
Every year, Baltimore Magazine rounds up a list of the best in local entertainment in celebration of the city’s quirky yet beloved businesses, ranging in genre from food and fun to services and shops, news and art. Taking the cake… Read More
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Oh, Fudge! What Candy Has to Do with Shams and Wars
The word “fudge” dates back to the seventeenth century, when it was used as a verb to describe doctored dealings: matters that had been inelegantly or dishonestly thrown together in such a way as to make them appear correctly worked…. Read More