The Perfect Treat: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Chocolate
Food writer Megan Giller writes about the everyday, the extraordinary, and the edible for The New York Times, Slate, Zagat, and Food & Wine. She is so obsessed with chocolate that she’s spent the past six years studying it – even writing a book called Bean-to-Bar Chocolate: America’s Craft Chocolate Revolution. Her website “Chocolate Noise” was a 2016 Saveur Food Blog Awards finalist.
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Everything You Need To Know About Chocolate
What is it about chocolate that makes it everyone’s favorite indulgence? Why can you taste the difference between a $1.00 chocolate bar and those expensive artisan brands? Does dark chocolate really have health benefits? Join chocolate expert Megan Giller as she changes the way you think about and taste chocolate. You’ll travel back in time 4,000 years to the era when chocolate was an unsweetened, spicy drink, and 300 years ago when the magical tree that grows cacao beans was planted around the world. Explore how chocolate is made from scratch by a new generation of chocolate makers who focus on flavor and quality, transforming our favorite food into something more delicious than ever.
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