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Simons Chocolate Booty
Description: Ahoy maties! If ye want to impress Captain Blackbeard, ye best be givin him this crown jewel of chocolate gems! Hoist the sails with Mast Brother's Almond & Sea Salt Chocolate where the deck hands roast the almonds in olive oil. Ye wont be shark bait with Captain John Kelly Chocolates with Caramel and Hawaiian Sea Salt and Spain sent their Armada along with Simon's Coll traditionally toasted dark chocolate bar. Chocolate Enrobed Marshmallows, Milk Chocolate Dipped Potato Chips and Hammond's Almond Toffee completes this abundant booty of treasures. Shiver me timbers! In regular basket $100 - as pictured $159
Price: $100.00 to $159.00 Visit the Website
"Dorothy's Ruby Slipper" In Milk Chocolate With Truffles
Description: Expressions Fine Chocolate, the "by-appointment-only" chocolatier, will be celebrating Valentine's Day, February, 14, 2012, with "Dorothy's Ruby Slipper." "It's hand-made and 100% edible," stated owner and chocolatier Valerie Gamble. "The slipper is made from milk chocolate, and the glitter is crystallized red sugar. And each slipper comes with 1/4 pound of mixed truffles." price: $75.00 plus tax. (Shipping is available, all though we cannot guarantee against a broken heal.) To place your order for "Dorothy's Ruby Slipper" filled with truffles, or for any custom hand-made chocolate, please call 713-636-9081. For more information please visit ExpressionsFineChocolate.com.
Price: $75.00 Visit the Website
Dancing Deer's Signature Baker's Best Holiday Gift Tower
Description: Hand-packed in two collectible linen finish holiday green boxes and tied with a red grosgrain ribbon, this delicious two-box set includes 8 each of our Triple Chocolate Chip, Snickerdoodle, Molasses Clove and Cranberry Orange cookies, and 4 each of our Chocolate Chunk, Caramel Pecan, Peanut Butter, and Cappuccino brownies. Dancing Deer is passionate about food, nature, aesthetics and community. Since 1994, the company has been known for its delicious tasting all-natural brownies, cookies, cakes and baking mixes, which are sold online (www.DancingDeer.com) as gourmet gift arrangements for consumers and corporations, and in specialty, natural food and grocery stores nationwide. Dancing Deer has won many national awards and accolades for its distinctive products and innovative business practices, and most recently became one of the first Massachusetts companies to be certified as a Sustainable Business Leader. Dancing Deer's Chocolate Chunk Brownie has just been named America's Best Tasting Brownie based on a blind taste test and national consumer survey and the company has also just been awarded Elite status by STELLAService in recognition of its high quality customer service. Dancing Deer places an enormous emphasis on giving back to the community, by helping homeless and at-risk families through their Sweet Home Project initiative: www.DancingDeer.com/sweethome
Price: $67.99 Visit the Website
The Chocolatines His Collection
Description: What does Dad want for Father's Day? If you are looking for a remarkably unique and tasteful git, there's only one collection made especially for men. Indulge your favorite guy with 72% dark chocolate bars, individually flavored with smoky bacon, bleu cheese, and brandy liqueur; caramelized almonds dipped in dark chocolate and rolled in cocoa powder and finally rich caramel shots — handmade caramel infused with shochu, cognac and tequila, then hand-piped into a dark chocolate cup.
Price: $60.00 Visit the Website
Choclatique's Chocolate Man
Description: The Chocolate Man shares the same roughly humanoid shape as a gingerbread man, with stubby arms and legs and no fingers or toes, but unlike the gingerbread man, Chocolate Man has a huge heart! Each Chocolate Man is custom made and decorated to order according to the season and the whims of the chocolatier. If you would like a name added to your Chocolate Man, please include that information in the special notes section at check-out or call our Concierge. Okay, we can even make Chocolate Girls, too! Chocolate Man is 13" tall, 10" wide and 1/2" thick. He weighs in at a hefty 2-1/2 pounds of chocolate... Choclatique Prestige Milk chocolate with a Snowy White chocolate heart. Order your personalized, specially packaged Chocolate Man (or Girl) today! Product Features • Seasonally available (November 1st-December 31st) • Perfect for Christmas • Authentically American Milk Chocolate • All natural—No preservatives, artificial colors or flavors • Artisan creation • Hand decorated • Carefully hand packaged
Price: $49.99 to $50.00 Visit the Website
Tanteo Chocolate Tequila
Description: Tanteo is a premium tequila, distilled, infused and bottled in the historic mountain town of Tequila, Mexico. Meticulous care and attention is given to both the selection and harvesting of the agave, which is processed and distilled into the highest-quality blanco tequila, and to the extraction of natural flavors to complement the spirit. Tequila's luscious fruit and roasted agave flavors, as well as the light, peppery heat of jalapeños, are also present in the Tanteo Chocolate, which gets its distinctive, smooth, earthy sweetness from roasted, malted and raw cocoa. Tanteo Chocolate is delicious on its own, sipped over ice, or in one of its many cocktails.
Price: $45.00 Visit the Website
Whole Foods Gift Boxes
Description: Whole Foods Market has launched a line of amazing gift boxes, just in time for the holidays. They are a great gift to check off your holiday list. The best part, they are available online. The five different themed boxes – spa "zenzational", snacks "gift of grub", cold weather goodies "get warm, get fuzzy", chocolate "You Rock Box o' Choc" , and Italian "ciao down" are delivered in adorable packaging w/ sayings like "Kale Yes" and "Au jus what you wanted". A perfect alternative to traditional corporate gifts (popcorn, nuts, etc.) and great solution for last minute gift sending to relatives across the country and in distant locales. See below for link and details.
Price: $40.00 to $60.00 Visit the Website
Bake Me A Wish Cake
Description: Bake Me a Wish! is the premium nationwide service for delivery of gourmet birthday cakes. Our cakes are made with only the finest, freshest ingredients by an award-winning family run New York bakery that also supplies pastries to some of Manhattan's most elite restaurants. Through careful cost control and air-tight delivery systems, we are also happy to be able to bring you our fine cakes at an extremely affordable price. Now, whether it's your son in college, your trusted associate, your old friend, or your granddaughter across the country, you will always have a simple and wonderful way to remember them on that important day of the year.
Price: $39.99 to $49.99 Visit the Website
Woodhouse Chocolate's
Description: For the smitten among us, nothing says "I love you" more than chocolate and roses. However, this Valentine's Day, don't just settle for the average traditional box of chocolates. Spice it up this year with Woodhouse Chocolate's trendy, modern take on the chocolate box, their Pink Polka Dot Heart Box. Only available during Valentine's Day, our Pink Polka Dot Heart box is filled with a variation of chocolates, including Caramels with Fleur de Sel, Hearts and Flowers and gooey Caramel Hearts. For more information please be sure to visit www.woodhousechocolate.com to see their entire assortment of handmade chocolates.
Price: $34.00 Visit the Website
Godiva Chocolate Vodka
Description: The new Godiva Chocolate Infused Vodka is a five-times distilled, ultra-premium spirit crafted with luxurious chocolate essence that is delectable on its own or mixed in an inventive cocktail. Godiva Chocolate Vodka is perfect for home entertaining or gifting to family and friends. This is the gift for the gal always looking for the next great thing. By giving this delicious new spirit, you will be hailed for being ahead-of-the-curve!
Price: $30.00
WineTime Chocolate Bar
Description: The Resveratrol WineTime Bar is a gift that's good for the heart. A gift that's a real "healthy indulgence." A gift that will definitely appeal to wine-loving chocoholics. It's a gourmet chocolate bar that contains resveratrol, the ingredient in red wine acclaimed for its heart-healthy and life-extending prowess, which has been featured on Oprah, 60 Minutes, and a Barbara Walters special. The patent-pending, award-winning bar contains as much resveratrol as 50 glasses of red wine. Without the alcohol. Without the hangover. And, as there are only 190 calories per bar, you can 'imbibe' as many as you want without expanding your waistline. And it is "sinfully delicious." The first nutrition bar to contain resveratrol is available from www.winetimebar.com for as little as $29.90 per box of ten.
Price: $29.99 Visit the Website
Shamrock Farms' Rockin' Refuel - A First-of-its-Kind Muscle Recovery Drink
Description: Rockin' Refuel is a first-of-its'-kind protein-fortified, flavored milk designed to help athletes muscles recover after exertion. After all, your post-game routine is just as important as your pre-game prep when it comes to building a stronger body. Rockin Refuel Attributes: •100% Real Low-fat Milk •Great Taste! •20 Grams of Protein •2:1 Carbs to Protein – optimal ratio for muscle recovery •9 essential nutrients including naturally occurring electrolytes •Natural source of calcium (not found in traditional sports drinks) •Same great taste and nutritional benefits as regular Rockin' Refuel •Perfect for active lifestyles •Lactose Free – easy to digest
Price: $29.99 Visit the Website
Healthy Indulgence
Description: Healthy Indulgence is the first dark chocolate vitamin to combine premium 60% cacao dark chocolate with vitamins and minerals for a decadent, great tasting vitamin. This indulgent supplement is made from all natural flavors and at only 39 calories per serving, it provides women with a healthy way to take their vitamins. Healthy Indulgence will be available in stores in the vitamin section in spring 2010. Healthy Indulgence chocolate vitamins are made of all-natural flavors, 60% dark cacao chocolate and are rich in antioxidants. Healthy Indulgence offers three first-ever varieties, including the first dark chocolate multi-vitamin, the first dark chocolate stress relief supplement and first dark chocolate appetite suppressant supplement.
Price: $28.99 Visit the Website
Tortuga Caribbean Rum Cakes
Description: Made from a generations old island family recipe, Tortuga Caribbean rum cakes are baked in the Cayman Islands, Barbados, Jamaica and the Bahamas. Each cake is hand glazed with five-year-old oak barrel aged Tortuga gold rum, then vacuum sealed to lock in the delicious freshness. The cakes are available in 8 tropical flavors -- original golden with walnuts, chocolate, coconut, banana, pineapple, key lime, Blue Mountain coffee and cinnamon rum raisin. Other products include Scovie Award winning hot and savory Caribbean sauces, rum flavored coffees, rum fudge, turffles, conch chowder and more.
Price: $25.00 to $32.95 Visit the Website
Slimmies Weight Loss Chocolate
Description: A brand new diet product is getting rave reviews from retailers and consumers and the best part…it's Chocolate. Available at Rite Aid, Slimmies Weight Loss Chocolates are delicious and aid in helping you feel full faster while breaking down fats. In a study published in the International Journal of Obesity, participants who took Slimmies' active ingredient lost an average 4.9 lbs. in 4 weeks and participants who took the placebo only lost 0.4 lbs in the same time period. Directions included taking one Slimmies chocolate 30 minutes before a meal followed by an 8 ounce glass of water. Slimmies Weight Loss Chocolate Chew is a highly refined Glucomannan that gently expands with water to help you feel full faster, so you eat less. When you do eat, Slimmies' active ingredient will help to reduce the fats and calories absorbed from the food you eat. Both will help reduce your calorie intake to help you lose weight. You will also get a lifetime supply of daily exercises and meal plans as part of our complete weight loss program. It's everything you need to lose weight!
Price: $24.99 Visit the Website
ZANDA PANDA's Kaleidoscope Butterfly Mold For Baking & Crafts: Cake Topper/Cookie/Chocolate/Crafts Mold
Description: Kaleidoscope Butterfly Topper/Cookie/Chocolate/Crafts Mold http://www.zandapanda.com/ZP-KB-LFinfoP.asp ZANDA PANDA Specialty Bakeware's Kaleidoscope Butterfly Topper/Cookie/Chocolate/Crafts Mold is as versatile as it is fun to use. Divided into eight slices, the design as a whole looks much like the view from a child's kaleidoscope. With eight butterflies nestled among flowers and scrollwork, the design ensures that everyone gets a butterfly. Elegant enough for a garden party, yet cute enough for kids, it can be used as a 'topper' for a 9" cake, cheesecake or pie, as a cookie or chocolate mold, or for arts & crafts projects for kids or adults like clay jewelry, fragrant guest soaps or cast paper notecards. The perfect design for Mother's Day, or any spring or summer celebration, whether an afternoon tea party in the garden, a child's crafts party, or to make handmade, heartfelt gifts and treats for your loved ones. The Kaleidoscope Butterfly Topper is made of FDA approved, 100% food-grade, platinum cured silicone, with a temperature range of -40 to 446 °F (-40 to 230°C) and is oven, microwave, freezer and dishwasher safe. Available at gourmet kitchenware shops and directly from zandapanda.com
Price: $22.95 to $24.95 Visit the Website
Selections From The Chocolate Nation's Chocolate Concierge
Description: the chocolate nation® (www.thechocolatenation.com) is an online boutique offering artisanal chocolates from around the United States, and the unique services of a Chocolate Concierge. Spirits Lover: Chocolaterie Wanders, Petit Liqueur Assortment (Washington, DC) A 12-piece assortment of liqueur-based confections: Plum Armagnac, Port, Whiskey, Orange Cointreau and Rum Raisin. DIY Dad Charles Chocolates: Chocolate Truffle Making Kit, (California) This kit includes all the supplies you'll need to make delicious chocolate truffles, just like Chuck Siegel, Founder of Charles Chocolates, did on the Martha Stewart Show. The kit includes chocolate, vanilla beans, an offset spatula, two 1/4 sheet pans, and recipes that will allow you to create a variety of truffle flavors including Fresh Mint Truffles, Tea Infused Truffles and Fruit Preserve Truffles. Urban Sophisticate NOKA Chocolate: 48-piece Dark Chocolate Vintages Collection, (Dallas, TX) These pure single-estate solid dark chocolate pieces offer an unadulterated journey through the finest cacao regions in the world. A collection of 75% cacao content dark chocolates from select plantations in Venezuela, Ecuador, Côte d'Ivoire and Trinidad arrives in a beautiful gift box. Includes flavor profiles and tasting instructions with each box.
Price: $21.95 to $80.00 Visit the Website
Cake Pops
Description: Cake Pops are decadent little cakes on a stick that are as yummy as they are cute. Each Cake Pop is made to order so you can expect a fresh delightful treat.We offer the following cake flavors: Chocolate, Red Velvet, White, Carrot, Butter Pecan and Strawberry. We offer Gluten, Nut, Egg & Dairy Free Cake Pops for those with allergies.
Price: $21.00 to $30.00 Visit the Website
English Toffee
Description: Our English Toffee is made from a secret family recipe handed down from generation to generation. We start with only the finest of ingredients and the result is a superior product. Each individual toffee round is dipped in Valrhona Milk Chocolate and rolled in a mixture of nuts. The crunchiness of the toffee is a perfect match to the creaminess of the milk chocolate. One bite and you will be hooked.
Price: $20.00 Visit the Website
Bite Size Gourmet English Toffee
Description: Our exquisite crunchy English Toffee was voted one of "The Best" in South Florida by Channel 7's "Style File." It is made by hand and shaped into individual rounds for your enjoyment. Each delectable piece of toffee is hand-dipped in Valrhona milk chocolate and rolled in a mixture of walnuts, almonds, and pecans. This artisan toffee is the perfect choice for discerning chocolate lovers Chocolate4Charity is a non-profit company that donates all of our proceeds to the Pediatric Oncology Department at Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital. By purchasing our chocolates you are donating to a worthy cause. We are helping children one chocolate at a time. Feel free to visit our website for more information.
Price: $20.00 Visit the Website
Choclatique's "Holidays"
Description: Give "The Holidays" in a box The Choclatique Holiday assortment flavors include all the most delicious seasonal favorites. These festive chocolates are filled with creamy ganache, silky-smooth creams, free-flowing caramels, nut butters and glacéed fruit and sealed in our rich, award-wining Private Reserve Dark (64%), Prestige Milk (32%) or Snowy-White (33%) chocolate couvertures * Seasonally available (November 1st-December 31st) * Perfect for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Gifts * Authentically American Flavors * All natural—No Preservatives or Artificial Flavors * Artisan Made, Hand packaged
Price: $20.00 to $35.00 Visit the Website
Chocolatqiue's Champagne Truffles!
Description: There is nothing more decadent or indulgent than a luscious, artisan-made, chocolate Champagne truffle from Choclatique, except perhaps a whole box of them! Our wonderfully light, creamy and yes, even bubbly, ganache is made with Dom Perignon Champagne and is enclosed in our rich, award-winning, Private Reserve Dark Chocolate (64%), each kissed with 24-karat gold! The chocolate Champagne truffle is molded as a contemporary version of the cork peeking out of the bottle—a design created by the talented designers and artists from Ferrari. Product Features: * All Natural, No Preservatives, Artificial Colors or Flavors * Gluten- and Nut-Free * Rich, Chocolate Brown, Stylized, Reusable Leather Gift Box With Hand-Tied Double Satin Ribbon
Price: $20.00 to $65.00 Visit the Website
"Chocolate Cherry Cordials" From Choclatique
Description: Our plump, premium Grade A Maraschino cherries are marinated and then wrapped in a specially formulated white chocolate-butter ganache. They are hand-stuffed by our chocolate artisans and sealed in Choclatique's signature Private Reserve Dark Chocolate (64%) shells. The cherry confections are then set aside for about a month to cure allowing the centers to liquefy making that delicate liquid center with just a touch of white chocolate ganache. Choclatique Dark Cherry Cordials make the perfect snack, gift or treat for any occasion. Product Features: * Authentically American Flavors * No Artificial Flavors * Gluten and Nut-Free * Rich, Chocolate Brown, Stylized, Reusable Leather Gift Box With Hand-Tied Double Satin Ribbon
Price: $20.00 to $65.00 Visit the Website
Chocolate, Cupcake, Wine, And Coffee Themed Rubber Duck And Chocolate Gift Sets!
Description: CelebriDucks does a whole line of celebrity rubber ducks that were voted one of the top 100 gifts by Entertainment Weekly. They are some of the most intricately sculpted and painted ducks on the market and all come in these beautiful gift boxes. Now you can order these wonderful gift packages of our food themed rubber ducks and our line of fine Belgian duck chocolates that really add a unique aspect to whole gift giving be it for male or female. At www.CelebriDucks.com you can see all the new food themed duckies such as our Cocoa Canard (chocolate) Cupcake Canard (cupcakes), Cafe Canard (coffee), and Cabernet Canard (wine). People can send these food themed duckies with our real Belgium duck chocolates plus a hand-written gift card all wrapped up to anyone worldwide. Our BBQ Holy Smoker Pig is the newest edition!
Price: $19.99 Visit the Website
Tastefully Simple's Cookies & Cocoa
Description: Our sweetest way to show you care. Perfect for the holidays, this comforting gift under $20 features buttery cookies tucked in a taffeta bag with two mini beverages. Cookies & Cocoa includes: Cocoa Pals, Snickerdoodle Cookies and a teal taffeta gift bag. Cocoa Pals is perfect for your best pals, this set of cozy beverages - Butterscotch Kisses™ Cocoa Mix and Malted Cocoa Mix - comes together in a cute little two-pack. With sweet hints of cinnamon and vanilla, Tastefully Simple's Snickerdoodle Cookies are always as fun to eat as they are to say! Just open and enjoy. The gorgeous teal taffeta gift bag features an elegant cord and beautifully wraps up any gift.
Price: $19.95 Visit the Website
Chocolate Fondue Recipe From "The Heart-Smart Diabetes Kitchen: Fresh, Fast, And Flavorful Recipes Made With Canola Oil"
Description: Fondues are always popular, especially when there's chocolate involved. You'd never know this dish is healthier than traditional chocolate fondue because it's just that good! ¼ cup cocoa powder 1 cup fat-free evaporated milk 1 tablespoon canola oil 1½ ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped ¼ cup packed brown sugar substitute blend ½ teaspoon vanilla extract (optional) 8 wooden picks 1. Whisk together cocoa, milk, and canola oil in a medium saucepan. Place over medium-high heat, and bring just to a boil, about 3 minutes. Reduce heat; simmer for 4 minutes or until slightly thickened, stirring frequently. Add chocolate, reduce to low heat, and stir until melted. Remove from heat; whisk in sugar and vanilla. 2. To serve, provide wooden picks with which to dip strawberries, bananas, or cubes of angel food cake. Fondue may also be served with biscotti, such as the Almond-Cherry Biscotti, or over fat-free frozen yogurt. Yield: 8 servings. Serving size: 2 tablespoons.
Price: $18.95 Visit the Website
Derry Church Artisan Chocolates Exquisite French Bon Bons
Description: Derry Church Artisan Chocolates hand-produces over 30 different exquisite French chocolates using only the world's finest estate-class chocolates produced from rare cacao grown in Ecuador, Venezuela and Bolivia, as well as 100% certified organic creams and butters sourced from local Pennsylvania dairy farms. Other ingredients in our luxury chocolates include fresh roasted nuts from California, and whole spices and top-shelf liquers from around the world.
Price: $18.00 to $96.00 Visit the Website
Create Your Own Personalized MY M&M'S
Description: MY M&M'S Chocolate Candies is helping you find some truly personal gifts – personalized MY M&M'S with faces and special messages. Available in 20 custom colors, consumers can use an uploaded picture or themed clip art – along with personalized messages – to create unique gifts or party favors. In addition to using your own photos and messages, MY M&M'S offers popular blends for graduations, birthdays, Valentine's Day, weddings, new babies and more.
Price: $17.99 Visit the Website
The Happy Baker: A Girl's Guide To Emotional Baking
Description: Erin Bolger is the bake-it-yourself Carrie Bradshaw. She's discovered the secret to keeping a smile on your face while braving the minefield of modern dating: yummy, homemade baked goods. Mixing hilarious personal dating vignettes with easy-to-follow recipes, THE HAPPY BAKER: A Girl's Guide to Emotional Baking (Harlequin Nonfiction · October 2010 · Trade Paperback Original · $17.95 U.S.) by Erin Bolger offers creative and delicious means to bounce back from anything the dating world throws your way. Introducing her delicious, down-home desserts with highly relatable personal stories, Bolger is like your long-lost BFF, complete with cookie tin. Thankfully, she's not afraid to tell all, from her soggy first kiss, memorialized with "There's a First Time for Every Cornflake Crunchie," to her first "sleepover date," celebrated with "Jumbo Banana Pancakes for Two." And Erin knows how to turn heartbreak into kitchen inspiration, as you'll see when you try her Netflix-perfect "Newly Single, Toffee Chocolate Popcorn" or her irresistible "Me and My Cookies Are So Over You," which require some very therapeutic chocolate-chip smashing.
Price: $17.95 Visit the Website
Tastefully Simple Popcorn Party
Description: These sweet and salty snacks are a new twist on popcorn -- great for the movie-lover in the family! The gift package includes one packet of Tastefully Simple's Fudgy Popcorn and one packet of Peanut Butter Popcorn. It is wrapped in a beautiful teal, taffeta gift bag. Giving Tastefully Simple products is essentially giving two presents, tangible and intangible -- delicious, quality products paired with time and energy savings.
Price: $16.95 Visit the Website
A Bazillion Calories Of Goodness
Description: Cake Os are made from cake that's been baked, broken down, mixed with our homemade frosting, molded into little towers and covered in Chocolate. The result is a petite, round cakelet, dense, doughy and supremely moist. Cakes Suzette makes these treats in nine or so flavors. Choose your flavor or order the assortment pack to share with others. A personalized card can be included for any occasion
Price: $16.50 to $77.00 Visit the Website
Bite Size Gourmet Dark Chocolate Brownies
Description: Satisfy your sweet tooth with some of our exquisite gourmet bite size Dark Chocolate Brownies. They are made with only the freshest ingredients and contain no preservatives. This unique Brownie has a hint of espresso and is topped with a sprinkle of homemade English Toffee. The final product is unbelievably moist, chewy, richly flavored, and most decadent! Chocolate4Charity is a non-profit business and we donate all of our proceeds to the Pediatric Oncolgy Department at Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital. By ordering our chocolates you are donating to a worthy cause. We are helping children one chocolate at a time. Please feel free to visit our website for more information.
Price: $16.00 Visit the Website
Description: IACP award-winning baking authority Judy Rosenberg's famous Rosie's Bakeries are a beloved New England institution, her mouthwatering confections have garnered countless Best of Boston awards, and her legendary Chocolate Orgasm Brownie is pure gustatory ecstasy. When it comes to sweet indulgences, Rosenberg knows that great desserts call for authentic ingredients: real butter, real cream, real chocolate, and lots of it!! Packed with over 250 recipes for delicious cakes, cupcakes, pies, cookies, and bars, THE ROSIE'S BAKERY ALL-BUTTER, CREAM-FILLED, SUGAR-PACKED BAKING BOOK imparts the baking wisdom gained from Rosie's Bakery's 30+ year history of serving award-winning treats. As a self-taught baker whose career began in a tiny Boston apartment (every doorknob was coated in chocolate and the sugar-dusted floor crunched with every step) Rosenberg is a connoisseur of real homemade flavor and her recipes are easy, crowd-pleasing, and irresistible. In THE ROSIE'S BAKERY ALL-BUTTER, CREAM-FILLED, SUGAR-PACKED BAKING BOOK, Rosenberg offers the home cook words of encouragement, step-by-step instructions, and helpful tips for everything from writing on a cake to decorating with fresh flowers to salvaging a mistake to executing a delicious "end-of-anxiety" pie crust. For a celebration, try show-stopping delectables such as Chocolate-Bourbon Pecan Pie, Caramel Apple Casserole, Velvet Underground Cake, Blueberry-Plum Crumb Pie, or Rosie's Famous Chocolate-Sour Cream Layer Cake with fresh Butterscotch-Coconut Topping. From Chocolate Peanut Butter Volcanoes to Ginger Shortbread to Pumpkin Whoopie Pies to Dagwoods, the cornucopia of cookies will be the hit at any office party or school bake sale.
Price: $15.95 Visit the Website
Gourmet Gifts: Chocolates, Cookies, Brownies, Cakes, Tea, Coffee...
Description: Savorique.com is a place for discriminating shoppers looking for quality gourmet gifts from the best artisans. Savorique is in touch with the best providers of gourmet chocolates, cakes, cookies, brownies, teas and cookies, olive oils and rare vinegars, as well as wines and flowers. It's a great place to find gifts for yourself and others. Check out the beautiful www.Savorique.com!
Price: $15.00 to $99.00 Visit the Website
A Fork On The Road: 400 Cities One Stomach By Mark DeCarlo
Description: A seasoned comedian's love letter to America's food curiosities— the regional cuisines, the culinary oddities, the weird and the wonderful "Mark DeCarlo is a [modern-day] Groucho Marx." —PEOPLE Whether it be fish ice cream, kudzu tempura, or even sausage, Mark DeCarlo always wonders, "Who the hell thought to eat this stuff the first time?" We find out in this hilarious celebration of the genesis of America's most creative and idiosyncratic food traditions, and the people who keep these food traditions alive. Join the master comedian on his journey across the United States to visit these people and their foods in their natural habitats—places like the French Quarter of New Orleans, lush Maui resorts, and the Annual Road Kill Cook-off Festival in West Virginia. From the obvious and beloved (Buffalo wings, Boston clam chowder, hush puppies, and strawberry shortcake) to the bizarre and, well, beloved by some (Rocky Mountain oysters, fried rattlesnake, scrapple, and deep fried Twinkies), DeCarlo takes readers on a rollicking tour of the people and places behind America's greatest food inventions.
Price: $14.95 Visit the Website
Auntie Fruf's Aahsome Fudge
Description: auntie fruf's aahsome fudge began as an old family recipe, but there is nothing old-fashioned about these luscious bites of smooth, rich chocolate. Each handmade, bite-size artisanal chocolate fudge confection is made-to-order in small batches using ingredients individually selected to create the ultimate aah-factor. With over 15 flavors to choose from, there is something for everyone. auntie fruf's aahsome fudge is the perfect choice for every celebration: personal and corporate gifts, special occasions, celebration favors, and event catering. To place a special order, please give us a call. Custom packaging and flavors can be developed to enhance any occasion. Whether you want an individual treat or catered specialty dessert buffet, auntie fruf's aahsome fudge is pure indulgence.
Price: $12.00 to $32.00 Visit the Website
Celebrity Rubber Ducks Of The Greatest Icons Of Film, Music, History, Sports, Recycled, And Even Chocolate!
Description: CelebriDucks is the original creator of the first ever celebrity rubber ducks of the greatest icons of film, music, athletics, and history. They have produced CelebriDucks for the NBA, Major League Baseball, the NHL, NASCAR, NCAA collegiate mascots, and numerous Fortune 500 companies. They were voted one of the top 100 gifts by Entertainment Weekly, featured on The Tonight Show, CBS Evening Magzine, CNN, and hundreds of other media outlets. Their line includes everyone from Elvis Presley and The Wizard of Oz to the world's first ever 100% recycled "Green" duck plus a chocolate themed duck with a line of Belgian duck chocolates! To date they have created over 200 different CelebriDucks and have pioneered a whole new collectible.
Price: $11.99 to $14.99 Visit the Website
Luscious Chocolate Smoothies: An Irresistible Collection Of Healthy Cocoa Delights
Description: Luscious Chocolate Smoothies - An Irresistible Collection of Healthy Cocoa Delights (Libertary Editions) is a delicious collection of recipes that combines the rich, intoxicating taste and benefits of dark chocolate, with a tantalizing balance of fruits, nuts, tofu, cocoa, vitamins, juices and other unique combinations to create cool, refreshing, mouth watering drinks for moms, dads and kids. The book is interspersed with chocolate anecdotes, humor and history, as well as tips for blending and information on its vivacious ingredients. Discover the connection between love and chocolate; delve into The Hurricane, Coyote's Howl or The Nutty Professor; and blissfully empty every cup to the last drop.
Price: $10.00 Visit the Website
Choclatique's "Santa's Favorites"
Description: Santa's Favorites by Choclatique is the perfect Christmas assortment for gift-giving. Our beautifully decorated truffles include all the most delicious seasonal favorites. These festive chocolates are filled with chocolate ganache, silky-smooth creams, free-flowing caramels, nuts and fruit then sealed in our award-wining Private Reserve Dark (64%), Heritage Milk (32%) or Snowy-White (33%) chocolate couverture. Celebrate Christmas with the Jolly man himself. Product Features: * Seasonally available (November 1st-December 31st) * Perfect for Christmas * Authentically American Holiday Flavors * All natural—No preservatives, artificial colors or flavors * Artisan creations * Hand decorated and hand packaged
Price: $10.00 to $55.00 Visit the Website
Salem Baking Company's Signature Collection Moravian Cookies
Description: Salem Baking Company's Moravian Cookies are baked in the homemade tradition from a centuries-old recipe using all natural ingredients and exotic spices from many far-reaching corners of the world. The new Signature Collection combines these uniquely thin cookies with the most decadent premium ingredients. These gourmet treats are enrobed and dipped in rich artisan blend chocolate and come in flavors like Caramel with Fleur de Sel, Espresso and Blood Orange. Carefully placed in classic tubes and embossed keepsake boxes, these gourmet indulgences look beautiful and taste divine whether they're being served at a party or given as a hostess gift.
Price: $9.99 to $24.99 Visit the Website
Metromint Chocolatemint Water
Description: Chocolatemint is a delectable guilt-free indulgence from Metromint's line of all-natural mintwaters. Chocolatemint is 0 calories and combines pure water, cocoa essence, and real mint to get a refreshingly decadent taste. The 100% real mint in Chocolatemint also provides natural health benefits, including improving digestion. Metromint combines the purest ingredients with innovative packaging and extraordinary taste to create a product unparalleled by any other. Each variety is completely free of artificial sweeteners, flavors or colors, offering an experience that's purely refreshing.
Price: $8.00 to $38.00 Visit the Website
Healthy & Tasty Gourmet Snacks That Don't Spike Your Blood Sugar
Description: Description: 100% natural grab-and-go snacks that don't spike your blood sugar. While Granola Gourmet™ Energy Bars are designed to satisfy one's sweet tooth, the bars do not have any refined sugar or the fat and sodium content of other popular protein and energy bars. The founder, as a Type 2 diabetic, wanted to create a product that is healthy, tasty and filling that could meet the needs of diabetics, as well as athletes and health conscious consumers. Granola Gourmet™ Energy Bars contain 10-13g Whole Grains and 391-590mg Omega-3's. For those with other dietary requirements, these Energy Bars are free of wheat and dairy, low sodium(15-35mg), and are kosher, veg and non gmo. Granola Gourmet Multi-Pack energy bars are available in 4 Flavors: Brownie, Very Berry, Chocolate Espresso, Spiced Orange Cranberry; and come in a 4 bar pack and value 10 bar pack in clear containers. Check out our website for more information, to find a store near you or online retailer. www.granolagourmet.com
Price: $6.99 to $15.99 Visit the Website
Chuao Chocolatier Firecracker Bar And Spicy Maya Bar
Description: The Chuao Chocolatier premium chocolate bars are the ideal chocolate gift for the foodies in your life. The Firecracker Bar is a mouthwatering blend of premium dark chocolate, chipotle and popping candy for a surprising kick of flavor. The Spicy Maya Bar will excite and delight the senses. Infused with a hint of Pasilla chile, cayenne Pepper and cinnamon. It's a return to chocolate's ancient roots with traditional ingredients that pay homage to "The Mayans", the first chocolate-worshipping culture in the world. Its rich, exotic flavor is perfect for those who crave excitement and adventure.
Price: $6.00 to $18.00 Visit the Website
Healthy & Tasty Snacks That Don't Spike Your Blood Sugar
Description: Description: 100% natural grab-and-go snacks that don't spike your blood sugar. While Granola Gourmet™ Energy Bars are designed to satisfy one's sweet tooth, the bars do not have any refined sugar or the fat and sodium content of other popular protein and energy bars. The founder, as a Type 2 diabetic, wanted to create a product that is healthy, tasty and filling that could meet the needs of diabetics, as well as athletes and health conscious consumers. Granola Gourmet™ Energy Bars contain 10-13g Whole Grains and 391-590mg Omega-3's. For those with other dietary requirements, these Energy Bars are free of wheat and dairy, low sodium(15-35mg), and are kosher, veg and non gmo. Granola Gourmet Multi-Pack energy bars are available in 4 Flavors: Brownie, Very Berry, Chocolate Espresso, Spiced Orange Cranberry; and come in a 4 bar pack and value 10 bar pack in clear containers. Check out our website for more information, to find a store near you or online retailer. www.granolagourmet.com
Price: $5.99 to $15.99 Visit the Website
Tortuga Caribbean Rum Cakes & Gourmet Products
Description: Discover an authentic taste of the Caribbean – including all nine tropical flavors – of imported Tortuga rum cakes baked in the Cayman Islands, Barbados, Jamaica and the Bahamas. From a four-generation old island family secret recipe, Tortuga Caribbean rum cakes are made with the finest ingredients and special oak-barrel-aged Tortuga gold rum. Each cake is hand glazed and vacuum sealed, locking in the delicious freshness and giving the cakes a shelf life of up to nine months, or indefinitely if refrigerated or frozen. Flavors available in Tortuga's traditional six-sided 33 oz, 16 oz and 4 oz boxes include original golden with walnuts, coconut, chocolate, banana, key lime and pineapple; with Blue Mountain coffee and cinnamon rum raisin offered in 16 oz and 33 oz sizes.
Price: $5.99 to $35.99 Visit the Website
Valentine's Day Lindor Truffles Bags
Description: It's not a holiday without chocolate – this year, give (and indulge in) only the best premium chocolate. Share the ultimate smooth melting chocolate delight with loved ones. Available with the new limited-edition Lindor Truffles, made with a milk chocolate shell and a smooth white chocolate center, milk chocolate or assorted Lindor Truffles.
Price: $5.99 to $7.00 Visit the Website
Design Your Own Chocolate Bars With Chocri
Description: chocri is the world's first company that lets you design your own chocolate bars online. First, you pick a base chocolate (dark, milk, white or a combination of milk and white), and then you get to choose from over 100 toppings - ranging from dried fruit and nuts to bacon and real gold flakes. Each bar is hand-made with organic, fair trade chocolate from Belgium. You can even choose a name for each bar, to be printed on the packaging for free. This is a wonderful, unique gift. And if you're not absolutely sure what to toppings the lucky recipient might like, you can always give a gift certificate!
Price: $5.90 to $15.00 Visit the Website
PRINGLES Brownies
Description: This Valentine's Day, don't stress about restaurant reservations, store-bought chocolates or huge bouquets of roses. Keep in mind that a home-cooked dinner and decadent desert can be just as romantic as a four star meal. After you've decided on the perfect dinner recipe, consider baking a unique treat for your special someone. Below is an original recipe for PRINGLES Brownies, created by professional Chef Kyle Shadix. The blend of sweet and savory will be a great finish to a romantic night in. PRINGLES Brownies • 6 ounces baking chocolate, unsweetened • 3/4 cup unsalted butter or margarine • 2 cups sugar • 3 eggs • 1 tsp. vanilla • 3/4 cup flour • 1-6.41 ounce can of Original PRINGLES, regular or 1-5.71 ounce can of Original Reduced Fat PRINGLES, regular • 1 cup coarsely chopped pecans or walnuts (optional) • Powdered sugar for dusting (optional) 1. Preheat oven to 350 F 2. Line 13x9-inch baking pan with foil, and spray foil with cooking spray. 3. In a glass bowl, microwave chocolate and butter on high for 2 minutes. Stir until chocolate melts. 4. In a stainless steel bowl, mix sugar, eggs, and vanilla until well mixed. 5. Pour in butter chocolate mixture and mix well. 6. Empty PRINGLES and flour into a food processor, and puree until very fine. 7. Empty flour mixture into chocolate mixture and mix well; add nuts to distribute. 8. Bake for 30 minutes, and cool. For an inexpensive and delicious gift, cut the brownies into heart shapes, place them back in the emptied and cleaned Pringles can, then wrap with Valentine's paper and tie with a bow.
Price: $5.00 to $10.00 Visit the Website
Organic Jams And Chocolate Hazelnut Spreads
Description: Rigoni di Asiago, makers of Nocciolata organic chocolate hazelnut spread and Fiordifrutta organic all-fruit spreads. Nocciolata chocolate hazelnut spread is 100% natural and made only of organic raw ingredients with no artificial flavors. Soft and scented with the flavor of Italian hazelnuts, Nocciolata is healthier than other spreads in the same category: 15% more hazelnut, 15% fewer calories and no artificial ingredients or palm oil. Nocciolata can be enjoyed as a spread on bread, an accompaniment to cakes, crepes or ice cream; and is even used by creative cooks in cooking and baking. Fiordifrutta is a line of 100% organic fruit spreads. Fiordifrutta is produced exclusively from selected organic fruit – over 3 lbs. of organic fruit is used to produce each 8.82 ounce jar. Fiordifrutta fruit spreads, unlike most others on the market, contain no added sugar and are sweetened with wild apple juice, also organic too. The company's all natural 100% organic products are gaining in popularity across the country in health food stores, supermarket chains, gourmet and specialty food shops
Price: $5.00 Visit the Website
Gourmet Award-winnng Fine Chocolates
Description: Ciel Chocolatier is the creation of France-trained master chocolatier Elizabeth Chung. A hidden gem located in an industrial business park in Walnut, 30 minutes east of downtown Los Angeles, Ciel Chocolatier is an inconspicuous shop chocolate aficionados are delighted to discover. Upon entering the boutique, they will find rows of chocolates beckoning for attention. Ciel Chocolatier has an understated elegance which is reflected in the artistic designs and fine tastes of the chocolates. Trained at the prestigious Valrhona L' Ecole du Grand Chocolat in France, Ciel's master chocolatier Elizabeth Chung uses premium French chocolates such as Valrhona and Cacao Barry as a basis, adding real fruits, toasted nuts, fine teas and coffee, liquors, herbs and spices…..to create a line of fresh handcrafted chocolates. These decadent treats include award-winning truffles, single origin ganache and pralines. There are over 30 flavors with seasonal additions. These delicious chocolates have received multiple awards at the 2011 Los Angeles Luxury Chocolate Salon such as "Best in Salon", "Best Truffle", "Best Presentation and Packaging", and more. Customers can visit the boutique to pick out chocolates, or can have them sent nationwide in boxed assortments. Other chocolate items such as Orangette and Mendiants are also available as elegant small gifts. Address: 20615 E. Valley Blvd., # D, Walnut, CA 91789 Phone: 909-869-7800 Hours: Monday – Friday 10 am – 6 pm, Saturday : 10 am – 1 pm, Sunday closed. Website: www.cielchocolatier.com
Price: $5.00 to $150.00 Visit the Website
Talenti Gelato E Sorbetto
Description: Talenti Gelato e Sorbetto is a delectable and thoughtful dessert, perfect for any and all Father's Day festivities. Talenti is 30–100% less fat than ice cream, is 100 percent natural and OU kosher certified. The translucent, eco-friendly packaging is recyclable and reusable for other purposes such as a clever snack container for Father's Day leftovers. Talenti's mouthwatering collection includes over 15 gelatos and 6 sorbettos including Tahitian Vanilla Bean, Sicilian Pistachio, Argentina Dulce de Leche, Double Dark Chocolate, Roman Raspberry, and Hill Country Peach Champagne. All Talenti products are made with extra fine pure sugar, fresh fruit, nuts straight from the growers, real Callebaut chocolate from Belgium, fresh whole Tahitian vanilla beans from Papua New Guinea, select coconuts from the Philippines and dulce de leche from Argentina.
Price: $4.99 to $5.99 Visit the Website
Description: At Xan Confections, our goal is to create a chocolate for everyone – even health-conscious chocaholics who crave an all-natural sweet treat. Xan's CocoXan truffles provide a way for chocolate-lovers to indulge in great-tasting, decadent chocolate while enjoying an added healthy benefit. These upscale, European-style truffles maintain the rich, decadent flavor of high-quality dark chocolate while simultaneously providing health benefits from a variety of nutritious ingredients, including CoQ10, DHA, a proprietary blend of vitamins A, C, D3 and E, folic acid and Wellmune WGP—'chocolate with benefits'! The CocoXan line includes five varieties of antioxidant-rich, gluten-free dark chocolate truffles that are "choc" full of beneficial ingredients that target wellness, heart, brain, pre-natal and pre-menstrual health. Xan Confections is a gourmet chocolate company offering a range of rich, all-natural delicacies. It is the newest venture of Susan's Healthy Gourmet, an Orange County-based company that prepares and packages fresh, nutritionally balanced and calorie-controlled meals for residents of Southern California. Xan Confections is currently offered at select Whole Foods Markets, Bristol Farms, specialty stores across the country, and also online at www.XanConfections.com, www.CocoXan.com, www.Amazon.com and www.Chocolate.com.
Price: $4.99 to $46.99 Visit the Website
Pure Dark
Description: Pure Dark® is a line of premium hand-crafted, specialty dark chocolates as close to nature and the cocoa pod as possible. Pure Dark® offers flavorful dark chocolate products with different intensity levels. Pure Dark® delivers an authentic and earthy chocolate experience with robust ingredients harvested straight from nature and features a diverse product offering, including: Hand-crafted Slabs, nearly an inch thick of chocolate Barks studded with plump dried fruits and crunchy nuts Rounds dusted with exotic spices and fruit flavors Chocolate-dipped fruits and nuts Lightly roasted cocoa bean Nibs
Price: $3.99 to $45.00 Visit the Website
Chocomize - Customize Your Chocolate!
Description: Description: Chocomize.com is the first website in the US which allows customers to create their own chocolate bars. Choose from your favorite base chocolate and more than 100 types of fruits, nuts, herbs, and candies to create a personalized chocolate bar. The Belgian Chocolate bars are handmade to order with only the finest ingredients! More than 30 billion custom candy bar combinations are possible. You decide which one is perfect for you. Think of Chocomize as a big candy factory and you get to play WIlly Wonka. It's easy, fun, and simply delicious. The bars are also great for bulk chocolate gifts, corporate gifts and chocolate wedding favors.
Price: $3.85 to $10.00 Visit the Website
Dagoba Certified Organic Chocolate Lip Balm Collection
Description: America's premium organic lip balm company, has created a new line of organic chocolate lip balms based on three flavors from Dagoba chocolate's award-winning chocolate bar collection. Made with Dagoba chocolate's organic cocoa powder, these USDA Certified Organic lips balms are pleasing in taste and also contain moisturizing and soothing oils for healing protection. The Dagoba Certified Organic Chocolate Lip Balm Collection includes the following flavors based on these favorite Dagoba organic chocolate bars: •Roseberry – rosehip oil, raspberry and chocolate flavors bring the perfect balance of sweet and tart •Mint – Chocolate flavor blended with mint oil, rosemary essence refresh the senses and awaken the mind •Lavender – Lavender oil, chocolate and blueberry flavor meet to offer a divine, calming experience
Price: $3.49 Visit the Website
Xan Confections
Description: Xan Confections will tempt the tastebuds and satisfy the souls of chocolate-loving dads this June just in time for Father's Day. Gourmet, hand-crafted over-sized chocolates from the decadent BigMouth Collection provide the perfect indulgence. Chocoholics and healthy eaters will delight in the old-fashioned, nostalgic childhood treats including s'mores, turtles and toffees in milk and dark varieties. Xan Confections is a gourmet chocolate company offering a range of rich, all-natural delicacies. It is the newest venture of Susan's Healthy Gourmet, an Orange County-based company that prepares and packages fresh, nutritionally balanced and calorie-controlled meals for residents of Southern California. Celebrated Orange County chocolatier Tracey Downey is director of research and development for Xan Confections. Xan Confections is currently offered at select Whole Foods Markets, Bristol Farms and specialty stores across the country. Xan Confections is also available online at www.XanConfections.com, www.Amazon.com and www.Chocolate.com.
Price: $3.00 to $25.00 Visit the Website
Xan Confections
Description: Gluten-free chocolates from Xan Confections are the perfect "guiltlessly indulgent" fix for those looking for a satisfying, all-natural treat. The non-dairy and gluten-free chocolates are vegan, low-glycemic and low-calorie, but are still as rich and satisfying as ever. Xan Confection's lifestyle chocolates include the Saintly Sins collection, raspberry, strawberry or pineapple-filled delights with just 29 calories, 1 gram of fat and 5 carbs, and the non-dairy Jewel Collection Caramels that are made using agave nectar instead of refined sugar. Xan Confections also has a new line of gluten-free BigMouth candies with layers of organic brown crispy rice and marshmallow, all-natural peanut butter and caramel available in milk and dark chocolate varieties. Xan Confections is a gourmet chocolate company offering a range of rich, all-natural delicacies. It is the newest venture of Susan's Healthy Gourmet, an Orange County-based company that prepares and packages fresh, nutritionally balanced and calorie-controlled meals for residents of Southern California. Celebrated Orange County chocolatier Tracey Downey is director of research and development for Xan Confections. Xan Confections is currently offered at select Whole Foods Markets, Bristol Farms, specialty stores across the country, and also online at www.XanConfections.com, www.Amazon.com and www.Chocolate.com.
Price: $3.00 to $25.00 Visit the Website
SHAMAN Organic Chocolates
Description: When you want great tasting chocolate and want to spend your dollars to do good in the world, SHAMAN Organic Chocolates "Chocolates with a Cause" are the right choice. Every bar you buy helps sustain the ancient shamanic culture of the Huichol Indians of central Mexico, considered by many the last of the North American tribes whose traditions are still intact. Made with the finest Organic Fair Trade chocolate, SHAMAN bars are available in 9 delicious flavors and a selection of lovely gift boxes. For a unique taste sensation, try our 82% Organic Extra Dark Chocolate or our Organic Milk Chocolate with Macadamia Nuts & Hawaiian Pink Sea Salt.
Price: $3.00 to $36.00 Visit the Website
Lazy Cakes
Description: Lazy Cakes™, a rich and gooey chocolate brownie, are a dietary supplement to aid adults who lead a stressful, energy drink- fueled lifestyle who want to wind down and relax. The magic of Lazy Cakes™, the original relaxation brownie, is in its proprietary blend that includes herbal relaxation aids melatonin, Valerian Root Extract, Rose Hips Extract, and Passion Flower. Lazy Cakes™'s popularity is rapidly growing; The Phoenix New Times recently recommended these chocolate morsels of deliciousness as tasting "good -- the brownies are very chewy, with a rich layer of fudge in the middle -- but we figured the flavor was the end of the experience…then something happened." That something, was relaxation. To get your hands on one of these chocolaty, delicious Lazy Cakes™ or for additional information visit www.mylazycakes.com and don't forget to click on the link to find out how to get "Brownie Points." For product news, promotions and contests, follow Lazy Cakes™ on Twitter at @larrylazycakes and join the company's Facebook fan page at http://www.facebook.com/LazyCakes.
Price: $3.00 to $10.00 Visit the Website
Chocolove Premium Chocolate
Description: Chocolove's owner and first level sommelier, Timothy Moley, sources the finest Belgian chocolate, fruits, nuts, and natural ingredients from around the world to expertly craft the most delicious premium, value chocolate bars available: Chocolove and Chocolove Minis. As the first company in the United States to feature cocoa content on its packaging, Chocolove's commitment to excellence and innovation is unwavering. Chocolove's award winning flavors range from new, popular 55% Almonds & Sea Salt in Dark Chocolate to sweet, creamy 33% Hazelnuts in Milk Chocolate to robust, complex 77% Extra Strong Dark Chocolate. Each Chocolove chocolate bar is carefully enclosed in a romantic love letter wrapper, complete with a love poem inside. Chocolove has been independently owned and operated since 1994.
Price: $2.29 to $2.39 Visit the Website
Chocolove Premium Chocolate
Description: Chocolove's owner and first level sommelier, Timothy Moley, sources the finest Belgian chocolate, fruits, nuts, and natural ingredients from around the world to expertly craft the most delicious premium, value chocolate bars available: Chocolove and Chocolove Minis. As the first company in the United States to feature cocoa content on its packaging, Chocolove's commitment to excellence and innovation is unwavering. Chocolove's award winning flavors range from new, popular 55% Almonds & Sea Salt in Dark Chocolate to sweet, creamy 33% Hazelnuts in Milk Chocolate to robust, complex 77% Extra Strong Dark Chocolate. Each Chocolove chocolate bar is carefully enclosed in a romantic love letter wrapper, complete with a love poem inside. Chocolove has been independently owned and operated since 1994.
Price: $2.29 to $2.39 Visit the Website
The Most Decadent, And Delicious Cupcake You'll Ever Eat!
Description: If ever you were searching for a Cupcake that took your breath away, or merely transported your senses into a different world, Then we Have the Cupcakes for you! Our Secret recipes keep out cupcakes unique! They do not dry out and They are always freshly baked and Moist! We also carry the best Organic Coffee in town! $1 gets you 12oz! It is simply the best deal around! On top of the best cupcakes and coffee around, we also offer hand rolled gourmet Belgian Chocolates, Espresso and specialty drinks! We promise, you won't be let down!
Price: $2.25 to $5.00 Visit the Website
Zing Bars
Description: Zing Bars: Complete Nutrition that Tastes Amazing! The only nutrition bar developed, owned and operated by Registered Dietitians. Each 100% natural bar offers complete nutrition: an excellent source of protein, low-glycemic carbs and heart healthy fats. The entire line is gluten, soy and corn free with absolutely no artificial ingredients, additives, or sweeteners. Most importantly, Zing Bars taste amazing. No synthetic nutrients, artificial flavoring agents or excessive protein to obscure the flavor. A real nutrition bar for athletes, those on-the-go and anyone looking for a wholesome, delicious snack. Zing Bars satisfy: a Zing of flavor and a Zing for health.
Price: $1.99 to $2.89 Visit the Website
Justin's Peanut Butter Cups
Description: Sold in portion-control two-cup packs, Justin's Peanut Butter Cups are made from the best tasting organic peanut butter and the highest quality organic and fair-trade Belgian chocolate. Justin's commitment goes beyond great flavor and extends to the integrity of the ingredients used in the products and the business practices employed. The company uses only the best organic and natural ingredients available. They buy as locally as possible and work to mitigate their environmental impact on every aspect of their business.
Price: $1.79 Visit the Website
Panera Bread Holiday Items
Description: The Mint Crinkle cookie boasts a rich blend of European-style cocoa powder and dark chocolate, enhanced with a natural peppermint flavor. Each cookie is rolled in powdered sugar prior to baking, and as they cook in the oven, they begin to split and crack open, resembling a dry, cracked desert floor and revealing the rich chocolate inside. Panera's Gingerbread Man Cookies are brought to life with white icing trim, candy gem buttons and dried currant eyes. The Cranberry Walnut Panettone begins with sweet dough made with cream cheese, candied orange peels, cranberries and walnuts, topped with Turbinado and powdered sugars. The Holiday Bread is our sweetest, most indulgent bread. It has lots of harvest flavors, including chopped apples, whole cranberries, plump raisins and cinnamon sugar, all rounded off with a little chocolate and a drizzle of white icing. From freshly-baked, handcrafted artisan breads to delicious pastries, Panera Bread offers a host of bakery items to satisfy even the most difficult Scrooge on your holiday list. These items are great stand-alone gifts, or delectable additions to any gift basket. And don't forget the holiday gift card – because it's hard to wrap soup!
Price: $1.69 to $7.99 Visit the Website
100% Natural And Tasty Energy Bars That Don't Spike Your Blood Sugar
Description: 100% natural grab-and-go snacks that don't spike your blood sugar. While Granola Gourmet™ Energy Bars are designed to satisfy one's sweet tooth, the bars do not have any refined sugar or the fat and sodium content of other popular protein and energy bars. The founder, as a Type 2 diabetic, wanted to create a product that is healthy, tasty and filling that could meet the needs of diabetics, as well as athletes and health conscious consumers. Granola Gourmet™ Energy Bars contain 10-13g Whole Grains and 391-590mg Omega-3's. For those with other dietary requirements, these Energy Bars are free of wheat and dairy, low sodium(15- 35mg), and are kosher, veg and non gmo. Individually wrapped energy bars are available in 4 Flavors: Ultimate Fudge Brownie Ultimate Berry Ultimate Mocha Fudge Ultimate Cran-Orange Check out our website for more information, to find a store near you or online retailer. www.granolagourmet.com
Price: $1.69 to $1.99 Visit the Website
Vermont Nut Free Chocolates Holiday Treats
Description: Thinking about stocking stuffers, gifts for teachers/babysitters or hostess gifts for this holiday season? Sweet holiday treats are always a well-received gift. This year, why not try peppermint Bark, festive truffles, and delicious holiday chocolates, from Vermont Nut Free Chocolates' vast selection of allergy safe treats. Vermont Nut Free offers a safe and fun way for every child and family to enjoy holiday candy this season. The chocolates are handmade, gourmet quality candies, and provide children with peanut and tree nut allergies a way to safely enjoy an otherwise off-limit holiday treat. They're also great for parents looking for alternatives for classroom parties in nut free schools. Prices start at just $1.20 and go up to $69.00 – so there is something for every budget. All products can be easily ordered from the company's web site, and are available to ship anywhere in the world.
Price: $1.20 to $69.00 Visit the Website
Vermont Nut Free Chocolates
Description: Vermont Nut Free Chocolates is a gourmet chocolate company whose entire selection is completely safe for those with any tree nut or peanut allergy but can also be enjoyed by anyone who loves fine chocolates. The chocolates are handmade, gourmet quality candies, and provide children with peanut and tree nut allergies a way to safely enjoy an otherwise off-limit treat. Vermont Nut Free Chocoaltes caters to the food allergic community.The company was established in 1998 by Gail Elvidge, the mother of a child with a potentially life-threatening peanut allergy. From solid dark, milk, and crispy chocolate bars, truffles and baskets of goodies to peanut and nut-free granola and energy bars, their products are safe from cross-contamination concerns that often arise with similar mass-produced products. Those with nut allergies can feel comforted by the nut-free guarantee on these products. All products can be easily ordered from the company's web site, and are available to ship anywhere in the world.
Price: $1.20 to $69.00 Visit the Website
Guylian Belgian Chocolates
Description: Guylian "ultra-indulgent" luxurious chocolate seashells are 100% pure, silky smooth, dark and white Belgian Chocolate and are filled with rich, decadent creamy chocolate praline truffle. The Guylian brand dates back to the late 1950's when Guy Foubert, a passionate Belgian Chocolataire married his love, Liliane who then joined names creating Chocolaterie Guylian. Today, Guylian crafts the finest authentic Belgian Chocolate Truffles, utilizing the original handmade recipe of Guy and Liliane. The original signature truffle recipe is still made in small-batch copper kettles exclusively by Guylian's Master Chocolatiers in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium.
Price: $0.99 to $14.99 Visit the Website


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Place the rice, quinoa, water, and salt in a medium saucepan. Cover, bring to a boil, reduce the flame to medium-low and simmer for 20 minutes.
While the rice is cooking, prepare the shiitake filling. Place shiitake in a saucepan with 1 cup water and bring to a boil. Reduce flame to low, add shoyu and maple syrup, cover and simmer 20 minutes. Remove shiitake and place in a small bowl. The shiitake cooking water may be chilled and used as a dipping sauce for the sushi, if desired.
When the rice is done, remove from the flame and let sit for 10 minutes. Remove and place in a mixing bowl. Heat the mirin and vinegar, but do no boil. Thoroughly mix the vinegar solution in with the cooked rice, fluff to cool, if the rice is hot. The best sushi is made with room temperature or leftover rice. Hot rice causes the nori to fall apart easily.
Place a sheet of nori on a sushi mat with the smooth, shiny side facing down on the mat. Spread approximately 1 1/2 cups of rice on the sheet, covering the width and length of the sheet, leaving only about 1/2 inch of the sheet closest to you uncovered. Moisten a rice paddle with a little cold water and press the rice down firmly against the nori. Sprinkle Eden Shake or roasted sesame seeds on the rice, lightly coating it.
Place a sheet of plastic wrap on top of the sesame coated rice. Press firmly with your fingers to press the sesame seeds into the rice slightly. Place another mat on top of the plastic wrap. Holding the bottom and top sushi mats with your fingers, flip the mats over and remove the top mat. The uncovered, shiny side of the sheet of nori should now be facing upward with the plastic wrap down against the bottom mat.
About two inches from the bottom of the nori, place 3 or 4 slices of avocado lengthwise across the sheet; then 3 or 4 shiitake slices. Sprinkle Eden Shake and ginger pickles over the avocado and shiitake.
Roll the sushi up in jelly roll fashion, pressing firmly with your fingers and thumbs, making sure to pull the plastic wrap and mat back as you roll forward. Continue rolling until completely rolled. Wrap the sushi mat and plastic wrap completely around the roll and squeeze very gently. Remove the sushi mat and plastic wrap from the roll. Set aside. Repeat the above steps until all ingredients have been used. You should now have 6 California rolls.
With a sharp, moistened knife, cut each roll in half, then each half in half and each quarter in half. One roll equals 8 pieces of sushi. Continue cutting, moistening the knife slightly before each slicing. You should now have 32 pieces of sushi.
Place on a platter and serve with Eden Wasabi (see Eden's recipe for making wasabi paste).
Per serving - 302 calories, 8 g fat (25% calories from fat), 6 g protein, 49 g carbohydrate, 10 g fiber, 0 mg cholesterol, 0 mg sodium

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text: Janet Bodnar questions whether the author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is arming her kids with necessary skills to make good money decisions. By Janet Bodnar, Editor-at-Large May 3, 2011 In the midst of the controversy surrounding Amy Chua's book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, personal-finance blogger Beth Kobliner raised an interesting question: Would Chua's helicopter parenting prevent her kids from developing financial independence? I mulled this over as I read Chua's book, in which the Yale law professor lays out her take-no-prisoners philosophy of child rearing Chinese-style. Chua doesn't merely hover over her kids; she slams into them like a cruise missile and grinds them into the ground. Her two daughters, Sophia and Lulu, now teenagers, were never allowed to attend a sleepover, have a play date, watch TV, play computer games or get a grade lower than an A. And she was relentless in forcing them to practice the piano and violin -- sometimes during kicking-and-screaming confrontations that lasted for hours -- on the way to an eventual performance at Carnegie Hall. Sponsored Content Tiger Mother doesn't address the financial issues that are common among parents and kids, but I can imagine how the dialogue in Chua's home might go: "Mommy, may I have an allowance?" "What for? You won't have time to spend it." Advertisement "Mommy, may I have a cell phone?" "Texting is the work of the devil. Besides, you'll ruin your fingers." "Mommy, may I have money to go to the mall with my friends on Saturday?" "Saturday is for music practice. Period." "Mommy, what will you pay me if I get an A in math?" [Stony silence. Cold stare.] There's a lot to be said for Chua's philosophy -- that is, compared with what she sees as soft Western parents who won't bear down on their kids lest they damage their kids' self-esteem. But her book is so extreme that you sometimes wonder if she's putting us on -- or is just plain nuts. Advertisement In any case, she's not concerned about allowing her kids to be independent, financially or otherwise, or letting them make their own choices. And making choices is a cornerstone of financial education. That's too bad, because her attitude toward money is as critical to her daughters' development as those hours of piano practice. A recent survey by Citibank found that women most often cited their mother as the person who taught them the most about personal finances. This was particularly true of single women and women ages 18 to 39. By sheer coincidence, I found the point reinforced in a couple of completely unrelated books I read recently. In her history of the women of the American Revolution, Founding Mothers, Cokie Roberts tells the story of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, the mother of two Revolutionary War heroes. At the age of 16, she was entrusted by her father to run three of the family's plantations in South Carolina. After she became a mother herself, Eliza resolved "not to be luxurious or extravagant in the management of my table and family on the one hand, nor niggardly and covetous, or too anxiously concerned about it, on the other." In the 20th-century classic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Mary Rommely gives a lesson in turn-of-the-century investing to her daughter, Katie Nolan: "Take an empty condensed milk can. Cut off the top neatly. Cut strips down into the can the length of your finger. Bend the strips backward. The can will look like a clumsy star. Make a slit in the top. Then nail the can in the darkest corner of your closet. Each day put five cents in it. In three years there will be a small fortune, $50. Take the money and buy a lot in the country." Advertisement The glimpses in Chua's book of her financial habits aren't always as commendable. She freely admits that she bribed the girls -- with treats, presents and even a pet dog -- to get them to do what she wanted. She threw a lavish party when Sophia made her Carnegie Hall debut and dismayed her husband by proposing to crack her retirement account to buy Lulu a violin. But, says Chua, her intent was to prepare the girls for the future by "arming them with skills, work habits and inner confidence." And Lord knows they'll excel in self-discipline, a necessary trait for managing money successfully. So the kids may turn out all right, after all. Follow Janet's updates at Twitter.com/JanetBodnar.


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LOS ANGELES - Locked in a tower lingering above a fantastical floating city, past electrical barricades and steel doors, is a curious young brunette woman in a long blue dress that's just a few shades darker than her big, expressive eyes. Her name is Elizabeth, and with an enterprising blend of art and technology, the creators of "BioShock Infinite" have aspirations that she'll be the most human-like character to ever appear in a video game.
In the eagerly anticipated follow-up to 2007's "BioShock" - a hugely popular undersea first-person shoot-'em-up - players are cast as Booker DeWitt, a gruff ex-Pinkerton agent who rockets to the cloud city in 1912 to track down this mysterious woman. Within the first hour of the game, he frees her - but that's just the beginning of their journey together in the airy yet foreboding kingdom of Columbia.
"After Booker breaks her out, all she wants from life is to control her own destiny," said Ken Levine, creative director at "BioShock" developer Irrational Games. "It turns out she has these incredible powers to tap into other dimensions. One of the reasons she's locked in that tower is because she can bring things through from other dimensions. Obviously, that has a huge impact on the gameplay and the story."
As players battle foes across Columbia, Elizabeth can rip open space and time, offering Booker advantages like turrets that can blast baddies and scenery that provides cover from enemy fire. Sometimes it doesn't go according to plan. At one point, she seemingly thrusts herself into the 1980s.
Elizabeth is more than simply a time-bending helping hand though.
Levine is hoping Booker's companion provides a new depth to "Infinite," one that wasn't explored in the original "BioShock," whose voiceless protagonist didn't have a sidekick. It's been a daring and daunting endeavor for the game's makers, considering Elizabeth was originally envisioned as a completely mute, scripted character.
Over the past five years of development on "Infinite" at Boston-based Irrational Games, Elizabeth has evolved into the most complicated facet of the game. The designers opted against traditional storytelling techniques, such as cut scenes, instead aiming for a leading lady who could interact with the game's hero and virtual world without constraints.
Squad mates, superhero sidekicks, buddy cops and other types of companion characters are hardly new to the interactive medium, but Elizabeth is among a new crop of right-hand women in games, like the fragile young Clementine in "The Walking Dead: The Game" and the feisty gun-toting Ellie in the upcoming "The Last of Us."
They're young and female, yes, but they ain't exactly Princess Peach.
Levine acknowledged there are obvious parallels between Elizabeth and Rapunzel, but the veteran 46-year-old game designer was also motivated by his personal life when creating Elizabeth. He drew from his own experiences with an ex-girlfriend, whose previously abusive relationship inspired Elizabeth's struggle with Songbird, her monstrous winged jailor.
Courtnee Draper, the actress who voices Elizabeth, noted that Elizabeth helps Booker just as much as he assists her as they traipse across Columbia. She believes Elizabeth will rise above many two-dimensional characters in games, thanks to the potent combination of artificial intelligence and Elizabeth's story arc.
"When you first meet Elizabeth, she is very different than the Elizabeth that you grow to love and see at the end of the game," said Draper. "She has a huge range of emotions, which naturally make her more genuine and compelling. I think Ken's narrative underscores that. She's not some expositional character."
"Infinite" won't be released until March 26, but Elizabeth has already inspired "BioShock" fans to craft costume recreations and artwork. However, there wasn't always love for her at Irrational Games. Amanda Jeffrey, a level designer nicknamed "Liz's brain," said some of her colleagues wanted to cut her from the game because she kept "breaking" every 10 seconds.
"She'd look the wrong way, walk into a wall, be in the way or wouldn't throw you something," said Jeffrey. "We started progressively fixing more and more of those problems. She'd then break only once a minute, then once every five minutes. Eventually, we managed to get her working long enough that people stopped hating her and started loving her again."
Jeffrey and the other designers had to strike the right tone with Elizabeth. She couldn't be too creepy or too needy. Her virtual behavior is a finely tuned mix of scripted actions and random elements. She's been programmed to subtly understand where Booker must travel to next in Columbia without providing any "are we there yet?" antagonizing.
"It's really tough to make a companion character that doesn't annoy the player," said lead programmer John Abercrombie. "There was always a litmus test with Liz. We constantly kept asking ourselves, `Is this the right thing for Liz to be doing right now? Are we annoying the player?' We had a general rule that Liz could never nag the player."
Emotionally, one of the biggest challenges was determining the right level of eye contact Elizabeth should maintain with the player. She originally gazed at Booker for too long. Jeffrey and Abercrombie thought it came off as weird. Then, she hardly glanced at him. That also felt creepy. They eventually achieved a natural balance with Elizabeth's mint-blue eyes.
"I wanted her to be like a little sister," said Jeffrey. "In my mind, Liz was almost a real person, one that I cared for and was downright protective of within the studio to an almost naughty degree. I think having that kind of personal relationship with Elizabeth helped me ensure she didn't end up as a cutout character."
The expectations for ""Infinite," which was delayed several times since its original release date last year, are sky high. The original "BioShock" sold more than 4 million copies and was honored with scads of awards. Levine and the "Infinite" designers aren't worried. Booker and Elizabeth are ready to soar.


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Anneli Furmark is one of [Sweden]'s finest cartoonists, and Drawn & Quarterly's translation of Red Winter, her chronicle of love and politics, is a must-read... at once a universal story of human foibles and a fascinatingly specific time capsule from an area rarely chronicled in sequential art.Vulture
Political tensions flare as an adulterous romance blossoms in the heart of a barren, Swedish winter
The scene is late seventies Sweden: the four-decade-long reign of the once indestructible socio-democratic party has come to an end. Parties on the far left begin to mobilize, hoping to overcome the prevailing capitalist model on a national scale, but also in the streets, factories, and small towns to the North. This is where we meet Siv: a married mother of three employed by the youth sector of her local socio-democratic chapter. Without warning, Siv falls in love with a young Maoist, Ulrik, who recently arrived from the south of Sweden to militarize—and gain control—of the steelworkers union.
Anneli Furmark's Red Winter weaves together the story of Siv, Ukrik, and the concentric circles of tension that slowly build around them, threatening to disintegrate her family's foundation. Her three children look on, noticing a shift in their mother without fully understanding it. Siv and Ulrik drift through the season, musing on their actions, their politics, their love, and its inevitable consequences—while Furmark's delicate hues of blue and orange heighten the cinematic qualities of northern Sweden's isolated landscape. Red Winter is a tale of a love that haunts in the darkness of winter.
Translated from the Swedish by Hanna Stromberg.
Praise for Red Winter
A universally human tale, a recognizable struggle between the heart and familial obligations. Red Winter is a surprising bit of warmth on a cold night, a touching tale and one of the most compelling books of the year so far.Under the Radar
Guaranteed to be one of the most unusual graphic novels you've ever read. There's political debate, social pressure, family tension and unorthodox romance, all surrounded by the darkness of a winter in 1970s Sweden. It's also absorbing [with] insightful character work and high-quality sequential art.Toronto Star
[Anneli Furmark is] a wonderfully lyrical cartoonist. When Siv speaks of love, it's akin to poetry; when Marita goes out to play, she enters the enchanted forest of her own imagination. Best of all, though, are her gorgeous watercolours, which utilise blue and orange – ice and fire – to such marvellous effect.The Guardian
[Red Winter] is heartbreaking and universal. This is another one where the art adds an entirely different component to the weight of the tale.The Awl
Furmark ... captures both how fundamentally simple and irreparably complicated human relationships can be. [Her] palette is an emotive canvas of complementary colors ... making readers care, on some level, about everyone who wanders in and out of her splendid panels.Publishers Weekly Starred Review
Furmark's colors lie loosely on top of her pen lines, which have a good bit of wiggle to them, suggesting a lack of sunlight. When hints of red flood the sky, it feels like life and renewal are on the way, in contrast to the darkness of most scenes. Maybe that's a political metaphor? Or maybe it's just beautiful.Paste
A love story that takes place against the darkness of winter in 1970s Sweden. An affair between a mother of three and a young Communist bursts forth in hues of blue and orange.New York Times
[Red Winter] does a wonderful job of looking at life in Sweden through a compelling story line and engaging characters.Library Journal
Furmark is one of Sweden's leading graphic novelists and Red Winter is a fine example of her talents, with its subtle, humorous exploration of emotional and political conflict played out in her scratchy, characterful art.Herald Scotland
Red Winter is like visual poetry.Comicsverse
The world may be full of fools and fanatics, Red Winter tells us, and wiser people so full of doubt, but in doubt there are riches – both frailty and wonder. This is a beautifully observed, and tenderly rendered, graphic novel.Bookmunch


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Sandy Memories
POSTED ON: November 12, 2012
In response to President Bharucha's request for the Cooper community to share its collective Sandy experience we received some remarkable images and recollections. Here are some. We will continue to add to this if you would like to share.
I live on the corner of Ave C and 11th St in the East Village. Waters on our corner came to about five feet deep and were moving like rapids, flowing south. At about 8:30 PM the Con Ed plant on the corner had three huge explosions and then all the electricity shut down and the neighborhood went dark. The water peaked about an hour later and then receded quickly over a couple of hours, but all our basements were filled to the brim. Those of us who suffered this damage are still working on clearing out debris, trying to get electrical systems, door buzzers, intercom, phone, cable etc dried out and replaced or restored. It is dirty work, but we all kicked in to make it a communal task. I am very proud of my neighbors and how they/we pitched in to help each other out. I had two generators but no oil or gas: one guy managed to find the right oil and others donated gas, such that I could leave my generators on the street, pumping out basements and providing charging stations for cell phones and laptops (of course we had no cell signal for five days). Our building has fireplaces and neighbors pitched in to provide firewood for us to keep warm for the entire week. I now know more of my neighbors than ever and feel even more at home than I have in the past 25 years in this neighborhood. If there is a silver lining to this cloud of misery, it has to be the bonding of people in the face of adversity.
--Gearoid Dolan, Director, Computer Studio
Homework by candlelight (photo courtesy of Patrick Collingwood)
Patrick Collingwood, a second year architecture student, shared a letter he wrote back to friends and family in the UK. Excerpts are below.
I go out onto the street as the storm has lulled a bit, and relish in this beautifully rare moment: Manhattan in the dark. It captivates me, and I walk and walk. Trees are down and the wind is still strong at times, but there are lots of others like me, out on an adventurous walk. I walk past the building which had it's front torn off, and will be on the news all over the world. It was a bit hairy, the police were cruising round telling everyone to go home, but I just thought it would only last a few hours so had to be experienced then or never.
So no one is really in the mood for hurricane parties, and focusing on work is difficult. The organizing principle of the nine square grid seems a little pointless now. I've been in a sort-of routine of freezing cold showers, staying in an English friend's very smart apartment on the 30th floor, slowly getting through all our food, and having candlelit dinners every night. During the day we migrate uptown to use friend's houses or offices for power and Internet, and try to do work. Yesterday we went to the UN offices, full of war zone veterans in shorts and flip flops who seem completely underwhelmed by the whole thing. We walk back along now clean streets (for once), and get back to an even darker city. The enquiring flashlights at the windows of surrounding towers have stopped, as have the dim candlelit windows. Everyone's basically left the area.
The only light comes from the odd car headlight tentatively navigating their way around streets with no traffic lights, and the reflection in the sky from nearby lit areas. We're now the only ones in our tower, walking up 30 flights of stairs in the dark everyday. I went to raid my digs yesterday for food and clothes, which was even more scary. There were five students left, creeping round the corridors with torches and looking terrified. Everyone had left, and they'd have too soon. No one knew when things would get to normal again. I emptied the fridge and bins, and rushed back to dinner and scrabble in the other dark tower block.
--Patrick Collingwood
Chung-Wei Lee, of the MAarch II program, shared the below video he shot of cars passing on the darkened streets of lower Manhattan.


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Sodium Hydroxide
Finally have a bottle of sodium hydroxide (NaOH) pellets in hand, and am Hot to Trot, to try making pretzels using a lye dip. How much NaOh should I use to how much H2O??
I am assuming that this stuff should be perfectly non-reactive with stainless. I can use a stainless spoon, skimmer, or ladle, and use a stainless beaker to mix/hold the solution? Can I store the "used diluted solution" in Nalgene? If I store it in a glass bottle with a plastic lid, will there be "issues"?
Don't have any latex gloves, but have thousands of one-time-use Nitrile gloves. Nitrile not affected by the strong caustic? Was going to use parchment between the dipped pretzels and an aluminum baking sheet. Will I damage my pans? Can I line the pans with heavy aluminum foil, then cover with parchment? Good idea? Bad idea?
Best ideas for diluting the lye, and what materials are "compatible" with the remnants of the caustic solution when baking would be appreciated.