The Best Chocolatiers & Confectioners in America
TasteTV and the International Chocolate Salon are pleased to announce the 2017 award winners for the title BEST CHOCOLATIERS AND CONFECTIONERS IN AMERICA
Chocolate & Wine Cruise on the SF Bay – 3rd Edition
Because it was great fun both times, a grand adventure, and sold out, we will be going on a third Chocolate & Wine Cruise on the Bay on February 11th.
TASTEABLE CALIFORNIA Season 2 Episode 26
TASTEABLE: California takes viewers on a weekly tour of California food and wine creators and destinations.
This episode takes a visit to the Barrel Room wine bar and boutique in Oakland’s Rockridge district, a trip to the Sunset Celebration food and lifestyle festival at Cornerstone Sonoma, and a chocolate recipe from Saratoga Chocolates.
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Luxury Artisan Chocolate Art Gallery
The cool and tasty Chocolate Art Gallery at the annual San Francisco International Chocolate Salon event (www.SFChocolateSalon.com) features chocolate skulls, diamonds, dresses, statues, zen gardens, cakes, and even Legos in Scharffen Berger Chocolate.
The Chocolate diamonds come from Chocolatines outside of Chicago, and the zen garden and legos were created by the International Chocolate Salon.
Video Recipe for Caramelized Dark Chocolate Hazelnuts
A delicious recipe for Caramelized Dark Chocolate Hazelnuts.
Created by Saratoga Chocolates, and filmed for the TASTEABLE CALIFORNIA television series.
Food TV Celeb Alton Brown & PopSci on Tour
Food Network Superstar and TASTE HALL OF FAME‘s Alton Brown has a new tour, and part of it is based on food and science.
Alton Brown’s first food hack (he prefers the term “hacking” over “inventing”) took place during season one of his Food Network show Good Eats, when he made a fish smoker out of a cardboard box. Naturally, since then he can count the staff of Popular Science Magazine a part of his large and loyal fan base.
He invited PopSci to his secret workshop, where they made carbonated chocolate ice cream in 10 seconds, used lights to cook a pizza in three minutes, and answered a few questions about his favorite hacks, affirming that everyone’s home has a lab (the kitchen!), and why it’s a good idea to take apart the lawnmower.
Mega Bake
If you’ve ever played with an EZ-Bake Oven, you’re familiar with the concept of cooking with the heat produced by a light. Alton’s Mega Bake takes the concept to a whole new level, using 54 one-thousand-watt lights to get the oven to over 600 degrees.
Brown used it on the Edible Inevitable tour to make pizzas in under three minutes, and showed us how he does it.
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