Aug 21 2010

Baking chocolate – it’s big, baby.

is this how you cut up baking chocolate?

It comes in hunks. Slabs. It smells up the whole bag you carry it in, and you want to keep sniffing it. Baking chocolate is when quality really counts. But unless you bake two similar items, at the same time, using different chocolates - and I'm not a scientist - it's a little hard to compare ...


Aug 13 2010

Dark is what’s for dinner.

I've done cartoons on chocolate from the very beginning of my cartoon career, even before chocolate became acceptable, healthy, and girly, instead of some shameful vice I had to hide. (Or was that just my family? :)) So I had a nice stash of cartoons on chocolate to show the editor of my proposed book on ...