July in Chocolate 2011

Tomorrow is a new month and that means new opportunities to celebrate life with fun food holidays involving chocolate, Sisters and Brothers.  Remember if I've missed any, drop your Chocolate Priestess a comment letting me know about others that should be added to our calendar.  Also let me know if and when you celebrate any of these. 

July = National Ice Cream Month -- We will be doing featured

Food Warnings Last Week of June 2011

Sisters and Brothers, another entry from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration about food recalls connected to chocolate you might want to be aware of.


Cinderella Sweets Issues Allergy Alert for Pound Cake Incorrectly Labeled As “Egg Free”
06/16/2011 04:01 PM EDT
Cinderella Sweets, of Woodmere, NY is recalling the following Kosher for Passover item because it contains eggs: SHABTAI GOURMET BRAND

Triple Chocolate Almond Biscotti

LinkedIn has been a good way for me to find and connect with small chocolatiers so  I can bring their products your way, Sisters and Brothers.  One of these companies is in Jupiter, Florida, and it has a cute name, bodacious biscotti.  Nava Viniar sent us two huge boxes of their Triple Chocolate Almond Biscotti, just one of the 17 flavors she makes biscotti in.  That they have so many types of

Chocophobia

Your Chocolate Priestess has this small daily calendar of chocolate (Chocolate: 2011 Mini Day-to-Day Calendar) that has some quote or piece of information related to chocolate every Monday through Friday.  For some reason 2011's version has nothing on the weekends though the 2010 version of this calendar did.  Today's chocolate bit was "Chocophobia: the totally logical fear that the world will

Box of Olympian Candies Revealed

Earlier this month I hope you have been enjoying our post about The Chocolate Cult's journey along the Wayne County Chocolate Trail in Indiana.  Our second stop on this trail made an offering to us and today I want to reveal their goodies and introduce you to our second Chocolate Coconut Acolyte, Laura, who is going to help us out when coconut products need testing more quickly than we can get

100 Chocolatiers and Counting

Created by our White Chocolate Acolyte, Fox
This past February, right at the end of the month, we passed our two years as a blog and as a cult center for all matters chocolate.  A week or two after I created this blog and saw that folks were reading, I decided to reach out to a couple of chocolate companies I found online.  I've never been a woman who goes only half way, that's how I got a PhD,

Wayne County Chocolate Trail Report 3

Our final stop on our trek along the Wayne County Chocolate Trail was for a five-course chocolate dinner at the Gennett Mansion.  To see the first part of this report on our day trip go HERE; to see the second part go HERE.



Official Photo from Gennett Mansion Website
The Gennett Mansion isn't the biggest house or the oldest in Richmond, Indiana, but our tour guide, Donna, and her husband, Bob,

Abbott's Candy Collection Revealed

Very recently your Chocolate Priestess took a small group to Wayne County Indiana to check out their Chocolate Trail.  We've had a few reports on this the past week so I wanted to do a featured review of one of the shops who made a chocolate offering to The Chocolate Cult.

Abbott's Candy Shop, in Hagerstown, Indiana, is currently run by a wonderful lady named Bev Keiser who gave us this Special

Wayne County Chocolate Trail Report 2

Today is the second of our three part report on our attempt to do a day trip for the Wayne County Chocolate Trail in Indiana.  To read the first part, go HERE.  The tourist folks up in Wayne County primarily push this attraction as a girl's weekend thing but we wanted to see if we could do it as a day trip since we live apart 2.5 hours southwest of Richmond.  This second report will reveal that

Wayne County Chocolate Trail Report 1

The Chocolate Cult made an official visit up to Wayne County Indiana to experience their "Chocolate Trail".  This will be a three-part report for you all, complete with photos and hopefully comments from those who went on it as well, so that you can check it out and see if you might want to visit or find a similar trail in your own area.  Your Chocolate Priestess is also going to use this series

Dipped Cookies and Cows?

I'm sure you've the cow decoration theme if  you live in the USA, Sisters and Brothers.  You know, that black and white pattern, sometimes even cows themselves showing up on plates, servers, figurines and even wallpaper.  Oddly where I'd expect to see them would be on food and yet outside of dairy products it has been rare.  until Cow Tipped Cookies who sent us a big box of their "Double

First Blog Award for Chocolate Cult

Your Chocolate Priestess does read food blog from time to time much like I read LiveJournal or Facebook or other venues where people stay in touch or share thoughts.  OK, OK, I admit I play too many of those stupid games on Facebook but let's focus on blogs shall we?

I read any foodblog my foodie friends post updates to which discuss chocolate, of course, but sometimes if I have extra time, I'll