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What Halloween Candy Ranks #1 This Year?

In a shock to chocolate lovers everywhere, candy corn tops this year's list as the most popular Halloween candy.Hundreds of people from all walks of life have responded to ExtremeChocolate.com's new Halloween candy survey, which asks: "What Halloween candy is your favorite?" Reese's Peanut Butter Cups is currently in the #2 position.Previous studies from other sources have found Snickers to be #1 -- but Snickers ranks third this year."I'm stunned," says Dr. Audri G. Lanford, head chocoholic researcher and author of a new ebook called "Chocolate, Chocolate, and More Chocolate: The Ultimate Chocolate Lover's Guide For Enjoying, Cooking and Making Chocolate!" "The idea that candy corn is more appealing than chocolate amounts to sacrilege to real chocolate lovers. It's true that we didn't distinguish between plain and chocolate candy corn in the survey, but still..."This study provides three kinds of important data:1) Suggestions (based on real data) for what to buy for the trick-or-treaters' who visit your house.2) Clues about what Halloween candy may be left over after Halloween for you to enjoy.3) It shows that lots of people will answer a non-political poll -- even right before an election. (Note: the poll did not distinguish between blue and red states.)The Halloween candy survey is ongoing so the results may change over time.

You can vote and view the current results at: http://www.extremechocolate.com/halloweencandy.htmlCONTACT INFORMATION:Audri G. Lanford, Ph.D.Lanford Inc.828-262-5885http://www.ExtremeChocolate.com.

Chocolate as Medicine

Which would you rather take to help prevent heart attacks and strokes? Chocolate or aspirin?

Amazingly, researchers in California have found that taking a flavonol rich cacao drink, equates almost exactly to taking a low dose aspirin, when it comes to blood thinning properties.
It seems that the cacao drink acts in a similar way to low dose aspirin in ensuring your blood flows freely -- and the platelets do not stick together, thus reducing the risk of stroke or heart disease.

But as usual with these studies, the boffins urge caution, they stress they are not advocating a couple of candy bars in place of your daily physician prescribed aspirin.
There are a substantial number of people who cannot tolerate aspirin, and possibly for those people, eating flavonol rich cacao may be useful to them.
You may also be interested to know that there are bioactive compounds in chocolate that promote well being, lessen the pain response...

Chocolate as Medicine

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New Orleans' Chocolate City Shirts Wear Well Across the Country

New Orleans, LA (ContentDesk) January 27, 2006 -- On Martin Luther King Day, Mayor C. Ray Nagin made headlines when he declared New Orleans will once again be a "chocolate city." Comments that have spawned a cottage industry of T-shirts.Within hours of Nagin's declaration, dozens of Chocolate City political satire shirts popped up. A search on Cafe Press for "Chocolate City" resulted in 63 original designs, including shirts, bumper stickers and coffee mugs. Cafe Press is an online merchant which allow a graphic designer to upload their original creations and begin selling immediately.Steve Apple, a New Orleanian who was displaced by Hurricane Katrina, hawks his "New Orleans a Chocolate City with Nuts" shirts at http://www.cafepress.com/chocolatecity2"The design was created purely for humor," Apple said, adding that he cannot wait for more inspiration at the Mayor's next speech.Other shops include imnotchocolate.com,...

New Orleans' Chocolate City Shirts Wear Well Across the Country

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The Chocolate Traveler Launches Three New Flavors

The Chocolate Traveler, whose rich, smooth and intoxicating chocolate wedges have lured gourmets and gourmands alike, launches three new flavors at the NASFT Fancy Food Show San Francisco on January 23-25, 2005. The round, sturdy tins that have been fancied by customers who appreciate their quality and style will now encase three new delicious chocolate infusions: Dark Chocolate Orange, Dark Chocolate Raspberry and White Chocolate.
All of The Chocolate Traveler's varieties are made from exceptionally smooth European style chocolate that contains a high percentage of pure cocoa ? the flavors help add to the delicacies' sensual and heavenly draw. With each 16-piece tin, samplers discover a whole new world of this addictive and luxurious confectionary.
The thick, bite-size wedges have been available in Bittersweet Chocolate, Milk Chocolate, Dark Chocolate Coffee and Dark Chocolate Mint flavors, each of them also available in carb-controlled options.

With the addition...

The Chocolate Traveler Launches Three New Flavors

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Masters of Chocolate look abroad and see something even richer

(ContentDesk) March 3, 2006 -- Five years ago, the Belgian chocolate maker Jean Galler collaborated in opening a restaurant in southern Namur where the main courses are flavored with chocolate. "For example, you might have a foie gras with a touch of chocolate in a sauce," he said, "or a salmon salad with a vinaigrette with white chocolate."The restaurant was a huge success, and, last year, Mr. Galler, who trained in Switzerland and has 30 stores, 13 of them in Belgium, opened a chocolate shop in Fort Lauderdale, Fl, and plans to open other outlets in the United States."The Mayas and the Aztecs used chocolate as a spice," he said, over hot chocolate in his shop in the upscale Uccle neighborhood of Brussels. And indeed, a package of three of his chocolates contains varieties spiced with curry, ginger and angelica."Mexico is our roots," he said. The relative youth of the gourmet chocolate market in the U.S.

means it has plenty of room for growth. American tastes are becoming more...

Masters of Chocolate look abroad and see something even richer

Chocolate > Masters of Chocolate look abroad and see something even richer

Best Recipes: Banana Chocolate Milkshake

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