Choco Trail and Town
Burlington, Ontario, has decided to sell itself to travelers as “chocolate town.” The city fathers (and mothers) have created the Burlington Chocolate Trail, which tries, somehow, to build a bridge...
View ArticleName Games
No sooner does one burg lay claim to being Chocolate Town (in the service of its tourist industry) than another town snatches up the moniker Chocolateville (with the hope of keeping the bankruptcy wolf...
View ArticleConsidering the Attractions of Mexico’s Sweetest Museum
Should we go home? Well, not really home, but back in time to Chocolate’s ancestral home. The recent news about the Mayans use of chocolate as a spice 2500 or so years ago and, of course, the ongoing...
View ArticleWoes of Too Many Travel Choices
TO travel in order to learn about chocolate or to savor it? That is the question currently plaguing (?) the darkest-of-night worries of our assistant baker (and scrub down fool) Theo Panadero. On the...
View ArticleSpectacle Not Delectable
Even in chocolate, where one almost always wants more, bigger isn’t necessarily better. Also, you can’t judge a chocolate by its cute or clever appearance. Those are the lessons to be learned as we...
View ArticleChocolate Around the World May Keep You at Home
BABY IT’S cold outside … and so time for some choco-tourism news. First catching our attention is Florida’s recently opened Chocolate Kingdom. Featuring five (Five? Really? That’s a “kingdom?”) cacao...
View ArticleOut of Office, Out of Mind ChocoTravels
When the forecast calls for rain foretelling fractionalized foot traffic, our forebrains focus on the foreign. In other words — and without f’ing around anymore — maybe it’s time to take a...
View ArticleChocolate Museums and (maybe) Barbecue
Based on customer words bouncing off the glass display cases in the front of the store this week it seems everyone in and around Riverside is hitting the road for short and long Memorial Day weekend...
View ArticleChoco-Tourism Wars
All wars should be chocolate wars. Just found the press release, and October is “Chocolate Heritage Month” in Santa Lucia, a hey-why-not-visit isle of fun in the eastern Caribbean featuring cacao...
View ArticleChoco-Tour 2014
Like chocolate itself, vacations are a recipe of ingredients both fantastic and real. Getting away, or just thinking about it, should taste of a dreamy unreality that rewards the mind for the body’s...
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