Virtual CHOCOLATE SALON Panel: In Conversation with Bean to Bar Chocolatiers

TasteTV & the International Chocolate Salon in conversation with award-winning Bean to Bar Chocolatiers about their creative inspirations & business challenges, including tips for great chocolate, flavor profiles, travels, and tips for success. Discover and support these great artisans!

Featuring Amano Artisan Chocolate, Indi Chocolate, The Good Chocolate, and moderator Barbie Van Horn of Finding Fine Chocolate.

WATCH THE VIDEO FROM THE PANEL

 

The Final TENET Movie Trailer has Dropped

Well, the final, final, FINAL, TENET movie trailer has dropped, and it actually increases the amount of buzz around this already hyper-buzzed-up film. The film was originally scheduled to be released early in Summer 2020, but was postponed due to coronavirus. This was due to the logical assumption that most people would not want to sit in an enclosed space for hours with other people and possibly catch the virus. If Warner Brothers could not maximize the amount of people seeing the movie, then there would be a LOT of money left on the table.

Not acceptable. Especially for a movie starring John David Washington, Robert Pattinson and is about Time Inversion. The sad reality is that if you don’t make the money now you can’t go backwards and get it again.

So the movie has been pushed back repeatedly, trying to figure out a way forward. Would it continue to wait until theaters could open to live audiences, or would it go the VOD route that Disney finally decided for MULAN?

The directors, producers, actors, and studios, not to mention the theater chains that are hurting for revenue, all say it’s going into theaters. This is a major reason why it had better be AWESOME.

Fortunately, this trailer and the buzz around reviews by those who have already screened it indicate that we still might have a major blockbuster on our hands. Which is a very tough thing to achieve in the age of COVID.

ABOUT TENET

Film by Christopher Nolan
Cast: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Martin Donovan, Fiona Dourif, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Himesh Patel, Clémence Poésy, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, with Michael Caine and Kenneth Branagh
Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Syncopy Production. Warner Bros. Pictures is distributing “Tenet” in theaters and IMAX worldwide.
www.Tenetfilm.net

Virtual Chocolate Salon Panel: In Conversation with Asian-American Chocolatiers

TasteTV & the International Chocolate Salon in conversation with award-winning Asian-American Chocolatiers about their creative inspirations & business challenges, including tips for great chocolate, flavor profiles, travels, and tips for success. Discover and support these great artisans!

Featuring panelists such as Tonet Tibay of Marti Chocolatt, Kimberly Yang of Formosa Chocolates, Wendy Lieu of Socola Chocolatier, Elisia Otavi of Raphio Chocolate, and moderator Cindy Wong Chen of China Live

Watch the video from the panel here.

MUSIC VIDEO: LAUREL’s new single “Scream Drive Faster”

British breakout vocalist, songwriter and producer LAUREL shares her new single “Scream Drive Faster” today via Communion Records. The track is LAUREL’s first new music since her 2018 debut LP Dogviolet.

The ’80s-hued “Scream Drive Faster” finds LAUREL euphoric, a mood starkly different from the melancholic chamber pop of her first album. “I really loved the songs on Dogviolet, but they were very heavy,” she explains. “At one point in my life I was in a pretty dark place and it was really comforting to sing about it, but it was hard to revisit those emotions every night.” When composing the track, Laurel wanted it to reflect the happiness she has found since.

Self-recorded, produced and mixed, Dogviolet received high praise from The Guardian, who likened her to Lana Del Rey, The Independent, and Vogue, who called her “the new face of British alt-pop.” The album also won her fans in the likes of BBC Radio 1 and Triple J. Still, her solitary approach to the record left her isolated and unhappy. Her new work is marked by a move from London to America and, having found people there she trusts and admires to work alongside, a newfound artistic process that’s open to collaboration. She wrote and produced “Scream Drive Faster” with Chrome Sparks.

LAUREL, born Laurel Arnell-Cullen, starting writing her own music at age 11 and by 13, inspired by Laura Marling’s debut record, began playing in local bars with her first guitar. At 17, she signed to Universal, and found herself living alone in a basement flat in London for the next three years, composing the material that would become Dogviolet. The transition was difficult: “Making music all day and night is how I survived and didn’t go crazy,” she says. She released her first book with the album, The Mutterings Of A Laurel, a collection of her journal entries to be read alongside the music. Though now writing from a much different perspective than she was with her debut, she is still dealing with the same big issues—love, loss and survival. Only now, she is happier, more determined, and head-over-heels in love.

LA MÉTAMORPHOSE Collection | Couture Fall Winter 2020-2021 | Digital Paris Fashion Week

Digital Paris Fashion Week is a thing, and it really showed that designers and other creators could rise to the occasion even without live runway events.

In this video, LA MÉTAMORPHOSE debuts their Fall Winter 2020-2021 Couture.

It shows what you can do with great fashion, and your own chateau.

Recipe for Grilled Tajín & Maple Chicken Wings by Chef Dennis Prescott of NETFLIX

A once struggling musician living in Nashville, Dennis Prescott is now a celebrated Canadian chef and cookbook author, with almost 600,000 Instagram followers.

His bestselling cookbook, Eat Delicious: 125 Recipes For Your Daily Dose of Awesome was published in 2017. Currently he is the resident chef of Netflix‘s series, “Restaurants on the Edge“.

For this season, Chef Prescott has created a delicious recipe for Grilled Tajín & Maple Chicken Wings.

Grilled Tajín & Maple Chicken Wings

For the Chicken Wings

  • 2 pounds chicken wings
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 2 teaspoons TajIn

Glaze & Garnish

  • ¼ cup pure maple syrup
  • 3 tablespoons fresh squeezed lime juice
  • 1 teaspoon Tajín

To Serve

¼ cup minced cilantro leaves, to garnish

Extra lime wedges, to serve

When ready to cook, preheat a grill to medium-high heat.

In a large bowl, combine wings, olive oil, Tajin, and toss until the chicken is completely coated in the mixture. (Note! This step can be done up to 4 hours before grilling – the longer the wings marinate in the Tajín mixture, the better.)

Transfer the wings to the grill, placing directly on the grill grates in a single layer. Cook for 15 – 20 minutes, turning halfway through, until golden on the outside and cooked through on the inside (and the chicken has reached an internal temperature of 165 degrees F).

Meanwhile, combine maple, lime, and Tajín in a large bowl and mix well. When the chicken wings are done, immediately transfer them to the maple glaze bowl and toss well to coat entirely in glaze.

Transfer chicken wings to a serving platter and sprinkle over the cilantro. Serve immediately with extra lime wedges.

 

Watch the Trailer for Netflix’s Restaurants on the Edge