Hot & Steamy

Professor now allowed to use Goucher College library

Cool ocean-inspired jewelry sales to benefit coral reefs - here is the press release

THE Harold McGee says we can use loads less water to boil pasta to save energy (it also saves time)

I don't mind pimples so much when the advice to get rid of them is to stop eating chocolate - as if!


The cacao genome will be mapped. I mean, it is the world's sixth largest crop after all.

I love all of these words (hot, steamy, chocolate, cake) and the fact that they are all in the same name of something, I now need to try this!

Economics and Chocolate

It is sad that kids are now worrying about what they are eating

Recession sees chocolate eating up


Chocolate IS a healthy passion - I've always said that!

The measure of a chocolate craving - analyzed (and possibly decoded?)

NOOO! Chocolate prices rising! These are dark times indeed.

This and that

I hate doing this, but I want to put this link somewhere to remember some places in Brooklyn I want to try for good food (and especially chocolate)

Harvard is feeling the pinch and consolidating their libraries

The title of the article is, "Sex can't be taken off the library's shelves". How can I not link to it?

I'm just shaking my head

Mario Batali confirms his arsehole qualities exist

Joe Wingo confirms the opposite of himself (that he is not an arsehole) but is actually doing a lot of good, it seems

He's just an entrepreneur!

That's right, I'll say it, "Raw chocolate sounds good" from Fine & Raw Chocolate

Happy Freedom to Read Week

The New Colossus

By Emma Lazarus, 1883

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Stinky

Dubai stinks

People will never learn that beach replenishment is temporary and they should just stop fighting Mother Nature

Charity/Community Service
Culinary students cook for homeless
Culinary Caper event benefits Meals on Wheels
"Men Who Cook" fundraiser benefits Women's Center

They tell me to eat more chocolate. I say, "OK!"

In Switzerland, people eat an average of one chocolate bar a day. This is why I need to live there!

Hershey Plant closed on 2/20/09

Six strange title shortlisted (or you can read it here)

Gel and beef and Koran - Oh My!

Chocolate Gelée recipe (who would have thought?)

Who wouldn't want a book titled, "BEEF"?

Request made to have the Koran moved to the top shelf at libraries so as not to anger people