COCOA & GRAPES BLOG

Joyce Halsey Gay

Jul 242 min read

Chocolate Excellence: Valrhona

Valrhona makes the finest quality chocolate for professional chocolatiers, and their Cité du Chocolate shares it with the rest of us.

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Joyce Halsey Gay

Mar 252 min read

Unwrapping French Easter Chocolate Traditions: A Chocolate Lover’s Guide

As the spring season blooms, Easter brings with it a myriad of traditions, each unique to different cultures around the world. In France,...

Brent McTavish

Jan 27, 20233 min read

Happy National Chocolate Cake Day

Each year, 27 January is observed as "National Chocolate Cake Day" in North America. It honours the approximately 250+ years this...

Brent McTavish

Jan 19, 20222 min read

When spice and citrus mix in harmony with sweet and bitter

Bal Pagès, absolutely stunning label evoking images of vintage parties from the 1930s , has an equally stunning and unique taste.

Brent McTavish

Jan 2, 20213 min read

International Chocolate Covered Cherry Day

The thought behind chocolate covered cherries is unbelievable simple: chocolate is scrumptious and so are cherries.

Brent McTavish

Jul 6, 20203 min read

Chocoholics of the World Rejoice! World Chocolate Day is here!

This special day dedicated to all things cocoa-based is certainly not a time to discriminate. Go on, indulge yourself!

Brent McTavish

Jun 4, 20202 min read

Happy Chocolate Ice Cream Day!

It it often said, that Ice cream’s birthplace reaches as far back as the Second Century B.C.

Brent McTavish

Feb 14, 20203 min read

Love is Love… But what is LOVE?

This Valentines Day celebrate whatever LOVE you want. Turn off the noise and pressure from our modern world and make it up for yourself. Lov

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