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Dark, Milk, White?
Dark, Milk, White
Most memorable chocolate experience:
Finding a Kinder Egg by my bedroom door each morning. My grandmother would leave one there whenever she visited from Germany.
My favorite chocolate is:
Whatever I'm in the mood for.
Hello there. My name is Hans, and in my spare time, I write reviews for Seventypercent.com and articles for The Nibble. I also run my own website catered to chocolate, called CocoaContent, although I update my blog much more frequently.

Well, that's just a little about me. Drop me a line if you want to chit chat, share deep metaphysical contemplations, or...oh yeah, if you just want to talk about chocolate.

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At 12:25pm on June 16, 2008, Arnold Ismach said…
HANS: You make a good point. If you don't eat much, it
won't hurt you. But just an ounce or two of pure dark, it will be a plus for your heart and blood vessels.

--Arnold
At 12:05pm on June 15, 2008, Masur said…
Hello, fancy meeting you here. Nice webiste but I'm mainly an observer.
At 7:26am on June 15, 2008, Gwen Borders said…
To piggyback on the previous content, I'll tell you what makes me angry. I have customers who will agonize over eating a truffle or a piece of torte. These would be people who are anxious about calories. However, these very same people will head to the club and throw down a half dozen martinis with no mind to the calories or the decadence behind such behavior. But oh, the piece torte, now that is so bad for them! How do I reason with people like this?
At 7:21am on June 15, 2008, Gwen Borders said…
We specialize in temptation - we are the den of the Pachamama :) It is funny how many people will buy sweets and automatically say "I'm being bad". We must de-psyche them. So screwed up. Afterall, mother's milk (or bottle) is sweet and was our first sustenance. Why is it so bad to hunger for sweets in the minds of so many? Does it ultimately translate into the repudiation of the mother? Is sweetness regarded as a weakness and considered a vulnerability to the eternal feminine? :D

I think about these things when I'm in the kitchen.
At 7:41pm on June 13, 2008, Arnold Ismach said…
HANS: The reason I knocked milk chocolate and white
chocolate is that they aren't healthy for you, like dark is.
Milk chocolate is laden with butterfat as well as sugar.
White chocolate has no cacao in it, just cocoa butter. And
some white chocolate today doesn't even contain cocoa
butter, the good fat.
I've developed a taste for dark chocolate, and now use
70 percent or more cacao to nibble on, or for cooking.
--Arnold Ismach, in Eugene
At 11:33am on June 13, 2008, Gwen Borders said…
Count me in for the deep metaphysical contemplations :) I try to keep my Mensa-side under control, because it scares people. I have found that if I look at them beseechingly while offering chocolate and cake, I gain greater personal acceptance. Other than that, my education was idealistically centered in German Language, Literature and Philosophy.
At 12:23am on June 13, 2008, Arnold Ismach said…
Hans-Peter: I'm pleased to be added to your friends list.
If we ever get together, though, I'll have to question you
about your apparent acceptance of milk chocolate and
even white chocolate (which has no chocolate in it).

I'm in Eugene, and my e-mail address is below:
aismach@uoregon.edu

--Arnold Ismach
 
 

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