168 trends found for "chocolate"
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Top Ten Chocolate Trends for 2012
This year The Food Channel, CultureWaves and the International Food Futurists decided to take a deeper look into chocolate and see what the trends are showing us. Take a look at the trends, try the recipes, see our videos, and indulge in chocolate.
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#3 Chocolate Trend for 2012: Chocolate with an Ethnic Accent
We’re seeing this across all desserts, not just chocolate. But it appears to have started with chocolate, as Mexican chiles and vanilla got called out in candy bars.
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#5 Chocolate Trend for 2012: Chocolate For the Health of It
The point here is, if we can garner a few health benefits and eat chocolate at the same time, we’re all about it.
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#1 Chocolate Trend for 2012: Craft Chocolates
This trend combines all the worries of the world and solves them with chocolate. Locally sourced. Green. Pure. Healthy. Artisan. Premium. DIY.
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#6 Chocolate Trend for 2012: The Cinnamonizing of Chocolate
Cinnamon is hot right now, and we’re not just talking about the stronger Vietnamese cinnamon (marketed as Saigon Cinnamon) or the Ancho-Chile Cinnamon.
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#9 Chocolate Trend for 2012: Crowdsourced Chocolate
This trend says that chocolate is showing up with some unusual combinations in what we call a mash-up of ingredients. After all the ways Americans have reinvented chocolate over the last few years, what else ...
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#4 Chocolate Trend for 2012: Chocolate in Unexpected Places
Chocolate flavors are enhancing all kinds of food experiences. It’s not just for the dessert cart anymore.
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#7 Chocolate Trend for 2012: He Said/She Said: Chocolate
Can you tell your preference for type of chocolate by gender?
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#10 Chocolate Trend for 2012: Chocolate Pairings
Chocolate and roses, yes. Chocolate and cheese. Chocolate and wine. It’s not new to put chocolate with something else that complements it, but we’re seeing a lot more of it.
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Donya Marie's Beyond Chocolate
Why not put chocolate in everything—including clam chowder? That’s what Donya Marie’s Beyond Chocolate asked, so Food Channel correspondent Ron Schie headed to the Central Oregon Coast to find out.
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Can Dark Chocolate Keep Off the Holiday Pounds?
More good news about dark chocolate! We’ve heard about dark chocolate’s health benefits—antioxidants and fatty acids. Now a new study seems to indicate that dark chocolate may also help curb your appetite ...
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China Set to Open Chocolate Theme Park
China is putting the finishing touches on a giant Chocolate theme park being built in Beijing at the Bird’s Nest Olympic Stadium where the Summer Olympic Games were played in 2008. It includes chocolate ...
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Garlic Chocolates Take Your Breath Away
Unusual flavor combinations are all the rage, and this one comes together just in time for Valentine’s Day! One of the top garlic producing regions is testing “black garlic chocolate.” It’s fermented garlic ...
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#8 Chocolate Trend for 2012: A Chocolate for Every Dietary Need
It’s hard to think about flourless or sugar free or even dairy free when it comes to chocolate, but companies are responding to the need.
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Advanced Chocolate 201: From Cocoa Beans to Chocolate Bars
Most of us haven’t had the opportunity to taste a cocoa bean fresh out of the pod, but if you have, you’ll know it tastes nothing like chocolate. The Olmec Indians are believed ...
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Your Face on a Chocolate Bar
They’re called Cocoagraphs…artisan chocolate bars that can be printed with edible Polaroid-style photographs, logos or other images of your choosing.
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Chocolate Library Opens in NYC
Just in time for the holiday season, The Chocolate Library is now open in New York City's East Village, featuring hard-to-find artisanal confections from chocolatiers across the United States, Belgium, Switzerland, France, Italy and ...