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Ice Cream Has Meat in It? 7 "Vegetarian" Foods That Actually Contain Meat Products | | AlterNet

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Great wall of chocolate

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Seth Ellis Chocolatier Crafting Organic Chocolate Delights Worth Splurging On

Mmmm, you could use a special treat right about now...you deserve it. Now that... more

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Artisan Chocolate Giveaway — handmade in PA

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Airport shut down by incompetent TSA authorities after jars of honey flagged as explosives

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TCHO: The chocolate scientists

It’s 4am, and in a silent warehouse on San Francisco’s dockside a light goes on and a wall-mounted webcam casts its eye around a cluttered room.

To the right there’s a desk with a PC, files And documents. On the far wall, translucent plastic Tupperware boxes are stacked on a shelf, each sporting a short alpha-numeric code. But the camera stops on a row of food mixers, softly whirring away and fed from above by shiny silver ducting.

There's a pause and a minute change in the room’s ambient hum as a motor is slowed. Then the light goes off and the warehouse is bathed again in the soft blue of a pre-dawn Bay Area night.

Across the city, in his bay-view house on the Filbert Steps, Timothy Childs clicks off his iPhone, returns it to the bedside table and goes back to sleep. In the morning he’ll be able to see if his recipe tweak has worked. Welcome to TCHO, the world’s most technology-obsessed chocolate company.

TCHO was set up in 2005 by Childs and Louis Rossetto, founding editor of US Wired and something of a post-digital-revolution guru. The pair never expected to find themselves making chocolate. Childs had been developing virtual-reality systems and Rossetto, since leaving Wired in 1998 on its purchase by Condé Nast, had been investing in high-tech start-ups. But a chance conversation led them to the industry’s as yet unfulfilled quest for the perfect dark chocolate. The challenge, which spanned agriculture, genetics, chemistry, biology and logistics, proved irresistible. Along the way they would reinvent ancient supply chains, use the internet to improve the lives of Peruvian hill farmers and, if Rossetto is to be believed, help usher in a new age of social responsibility.

TCHO’s story started when Childs, now 46 and a self-styled “serial entrepreneur”, was casting around for his next big project. A restless schoolboy of a man, whose mind darts from topic to topic with a wide-eyed excitement, he had made a good living since the early-90s, working in the then emerging field of real-time 3D web graphics. One of the founders of Web3D RoundUP, a notoriously riotous convention of early graphics obsessives, he bought and sold his way through various small start-ups until he ended up developing visualisation software for Nasa’s Space Shuttle project in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

“We had cameras look at the Space Shuttle when it was on the ground,” he says, “to see how the flaps moved and the doors opened and so on, and then we would map that into a real-time 3D model that we could show to the managers of the project. It was really cool.”It’s 4am, and in a silent warehouse on San Francisco’s dockside a light... more

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How Is Chocolate Made

See how quality chocolates are made.

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Kinder Surprise! Disturbing 80's advert.

Strange bit of advertising for a kids' chocolate with toy. Kinda creepy!

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Break Me Off A Piece of That Not-So Fairtrade Kit Kat Bar

Nestle UK goes Fairtrade with the Kit Kat bar...but should it really be called... more

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American Jewish World Service Launches Fair Trade Project

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Dark Chocolate Truffles...With Meat!?!

MEAT-FLAVOURED chocolate might not be everyone's idea of delicious, but a Kiwi... more

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Chocolate Conspiracy: Organic Chocolate

Organic and Fair Trade Chocolate that's hand wrapped! Saving the planet one bite... more

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Sweet Success

Consumer demand for organic, fair trade chocolate is helping to revive an entire... more

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United Kingdom Talk Video Saturday 31st October 2009

Saturday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch the show here on... more

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Celebrate National Chocolate Day with a chocolate tea

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United Kingdom Talk Video Tuesday 27th October 2009

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Water versus chocolate: comfort food without the calories

A study released last week might convince you to ditch the chocolate and replace emotional eating with emotional drinking, of water that is.

Water can be just as good of a pain reliever as chocolate, according to a University of Chicago study released last week.

Acknowledging that animals often eat instead of react to moderate pain, “Analgesia Accompanying Food Consumption Requires Ingestion of Hedonic Foods” examines if comfort food must also be high calorie in content.

Researchers studied ingestion analgesia — eating that causes an absence of pain recognition without losing consciousness — in rats. Rats were exposed to a heated floor that caused a negative sensation in their paws. They were then given either chocolate, sweetened water or regular water.

Results showed that all three effectively numbed the aching, proving that ingestion, not sugar, is the real painkiller, according to Peggy Mason, one of the study’s authors and a Professor of neurobiology at the University.

“This really shows it has nothing to do with calories,” Mason told E! Science News last Tuesday. “Water has no calories, saccharine has no sugar, but both have the same effect as a chocolate chip. It’s really shocking.”

Water has no calories, saccharine has no sugar, but both have the same effect as a chocolate chip. It’s really shocking.”

– Peggy MasonWhether they were eating or drinking to cope with stress the rats paused less often and for shorter duration as a result of subconscious responses controlled by the brainstem. This painkilling effect is also present in humans, Mason said.

And since humans have more readily available food sources than animals, this type of eating, whether it’s due to emotion or how tasty the food is, can contribute to obesity. Overweight individuals are already vulnerable to over-eating during negative emotional moments, according to a 2003 study.

By replacing eating binges with drinking more water, people can relieve pain without compromising their health.A study released last week might convince you to ditch the chocolate and replace... more

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What does it mean to you to "be a Man" in today's society?

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Dealing with and Treating Migraine Headaches | HealthMad

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Candy-gobbling kids may turn violent as adults

Willy Wonka would be horrified. Children who eat too much candy may be more likely to... more

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