Like the bi-annual equinoxes and solstices, the year has two days when we can indulge a sweet tooth for less: The day after Halloween. And the day after Easter. Hie thee to the store in a hurry for cheap Peeps...
Friday through Sunday, stop by any Central Market location for their Festival of Chocolate. They'll have demos and sampling throughout the store. Also check out the new fondue kits, with two kinds of chocolate, dried fruit, strawberries and skewers. Plus,...
For some cool and different wine gifts, check out my story "Take 5: wine" here. The Wine Trials book will shock you - so many good, inexpensive wines preferred over pricey ones. And local chocolatier J Dorian's Special Reserve Tasting...
...you may want to check out a class planned for Wednesday, Oct. 15, 7 to 9 p.m. Kyle Stewart and Phil Krampetz, owners of the Cultured Cup in Preston Center Plaza, will offer a chocolate-history lesson and anecdotes about Belgium's...
An offbeat P.S. to yesterday's Dallas Museum of Art post: On the way out after Monday's Seventeen Seventeen luncheon, I took a detour into the Center for Creative Connections. Just inside and to the right was Janine Antoni's sculptural...
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac tremble. Iran fakes its missile-test shot. Rice rattles a saber in reply. And what's the most-e-mailed story at The New York Times today? And adaptation of chocolatier Jacques Torres' chocolate chip cookie recipe. The cookies...
I love hearing what J. Dorian Chocolatier is up to. He's is one of a tiny handful of area confectioners making world-class European-style chocolates. Now he's teaming with Dr. Delphinium Designs, which will include his chocolates with some of their...
For the Easter season, chocolatier Dorian Isenberg's created Truffle Bunnies, made of French and Belgian chocolate and decadent ganache filling, available in three flavors: Classic Dark, Classic Milk and Classic White Chocolate (photo, left). Truffle Bunnies come six to...