Chocolate out of my league

July 24, 5:54 PMSF Boomers ExaminerSuzanna Stinnett

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In case you don't get the connection here, I write about chocolate because it is part of the whole brain thing. Brains and chocolate. Special relationship. Boomers and chocolate, well, if you're a Boomer and you don't know how special chocolate is, you might want to stick around my universe and find out.

I know a bit about chocolate. I know that the chocolate I grew up with is mostly wax and sugar. I know to be selective about where my chocolate originates so I don't promote child slavery via my vice.

I know the best chocolate I can find does very special things to me, and I know something about what happens to the brain on chocolate. All things I'll be sharing with you. As long as I can get a new supply.

Meanwhile, here are some blogs I found that I must confess are in another league entirely.

Chocolate News
By Mark Bitterman, and sorry, I don't believe that's his real name, but who cares? I don't have any chocolate on hand (how did that happen?) and I can't stop reading his descriptions. Oh, the things I didn't know about chocolate.

My Chocolate Journal
My Chocolate Journal is an actual journal, with posts describing the chocolate-powered activities of, evidently, Patrick Sikes. He did an interview with Dagoba's Frederick Schilling, and weighs in on various media coverage of the chocolate world.

TCHO
And I'm referring you to the review page of TCHO Chocolate, running in beta out on a pier in San Francisco. Owner Timothy Childs is, according to the LA Times, a former space shuttle technologist. Now he's a "microchocolatier" or some such thing. You can be a tester of TCHO. I suggest you do that.

I'm into raw chocolate myself, you know, antioxidants and all. But that's another story.

Tra-la!

Suzanna