Entries Tagged as 'chocolate'

February 8, 2008

Land of plenty: Grand Buffet, Amherst

One of three ranks of steam tables now occupying what used to be the Funny Bone. Insert punchline here.
Staggering out of a Chinese buffet, hoping you can get home before the insulin shock renders you too logy to drive, you tend to get philosophical, like a man on Death Row.
“You get what you pay for.” [...]

December 10, 2007

Hotter hot chocolate

You know what makes a great stirrer? Cinnamon sticks, of course.
After they’ve been out in the cold, scaring the cat, putting snow in each others’ hats and torturing each other in the teeth-grindingly annoying way that only siblings can, my children enjoy a sweet cup of hot chocolate.
Or, when it’s not so cold and they [...]

November 11, 2007

Gimme mo’: Vosges’ bacon chocolate

You’ve got your bacon in my chocolate. (Photo by Lauren Maynard).
Lauren Newkirk Maynard is an editor and food writer in Buffalo
Move over, Britney. Now that Halloween’s sugar high has worn off, it’s time for a Vosges Mo’s Bacon Bar.
It’s 41 percent cacao (that’s milk chocolate to the rest of us) with a touch [...]

February 21, 2007

Chip chip hooray

Chewy, no nuts - the best of all? by Flickr user Jeff Kubina.
What’s the perfect chocolate chip cookie like? If you ask that question in a crowd, you best duck.
Thin and crispy? Thick and chewy? Thin and chewy? Puffy?
Then there’s the great divide, the Berlin Wall of Cookieland: Nuts, or no?
A Metafilter thread explores the passion [...]