Sunday, July 15, 2007
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Chocolate Special at Xoconochco this weekend
Bing CHERRIES and CHOCOLATE
Available this weekend only!
July 14-15, 2007
Available this weekend only!
July 14-15, 2007
They've Arrived! They've Arrived! We've been waiting for picked-at-peak BING CHERRIES like a kid waiting for Santa Claus. We were so excited to open the shipment yesterday.
Cherries. Big, bold, firm, dark, mahogany red cherries. Straight from the orchard.This summer, we are participating in a limited program with Batch's Best Family Farms, a farm with acclaimed cherries located in the high plateau of eastern Washington. There, fruit is allowed to ripen on the tree rather than en route to the store. Tom Batch's family hand-picks each piece of fruit, and then the cherries are checked for size, color, firmness, and even to be sure they have a stem, five times, before they are boxed and shipped. This means every cherry is, well, cherry-picked from all the rest! Perhaps this is why they have been sited in publications such as Bon Appetit', Saveur, and the New York Times.
BING CHERRIES are the most popular variety of sweet cherry and the first cherries of the season. Washington produces some of the finest cherries, apples and pears in the world, but most of that fruit is picked too early, because it needs to travel by truck or train across the country to reach our supermarkets. At Batch's Best Family Farms, they are available for just one day a year - the day they are picked and immediately shipped to us - perfectly ripe- straight from the orchard. We waste no time in dipping them in white, milk, or dark chocolate and topping them off with ground almonds, walnuts, or pistachios. Our goal is for YOU to enjoy them as if you just brought them in from your OWN beautiful orchard and dipped them straight into luxurious chocolate. We have limited quantities available and when we are sold out, there will be no more until next year. So, come by early or call us to reserve your selection of FRESHLY PICKED, FRESHLY DIPPED CHOCOLATE CHERRIES!
Visit us at the shop or call us at 1-877-LUV-XOCO.
Options include: dark chocolate (64%), dark chocolate with almonds, milk chocolate (40%), milk chocolate with walnuts, white chocolate, white chocolate with pistachios.
Price:$ 1.45 each
Friday, July 13, 2007
Chocolate Sommelier :: Amber Restaurant, Landmark Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong
C’mon, you knew it was going to happen. Some trends, copy-cats and sequels should just never happen, but sometimes they are the perfect evolution. (Case in point, “Live Free or Die Hard” was even better than the original.)
A fine dining establishment provides expert sommeliers to help educate, entice and guide us through often unknown territories. First there were wine sommeliers, next cheese sommeliers (often referred to as Affineurs) and a few times I’ve even had a lavish silver cart wheeled up to me with me with my “water sommelier” offering his pairing suggestions for my meal.
A fine dining establishment provides expert sommeliers to help educate, entice and guide us through often unknown territories. First there were wine sommeliers, next cheese sommeliers (often referred to as Affineurs) and a few times I’ve even had a lavish silver cart wheeled up to me with me with my “water sommelier” offering his pairing suggestions for my meal.
So, hiring a Chocolate Sommelier is a natural! When you’ve risen above arguing the merits of milk chocolate vs. bittersweet, and let no less than 85% cocoa pass your lips although you really prefer 95%, or words like “single origin, varietal, & estate grown,” creep into not only your wine but chocolate vocabulary, than you’ll want the services of a trained C.S.
Read the complete story at Vagablond
Lost in the city? “Map” scarf to the rescue!
Inspired by the silk escape maps issued to Allied airmen during WWII, Map Scarves are now available for fashion conscious travelers.
The silk gold-tone scarves feature detailed city maps of London, Paris, Rome, Venice, Berlin, Vienna, New York, San Francisco and Washington, DC. They “cover” all the major sights and attractions, along with a few off-beat ones, too.
The silk gold-tone scarves feature detailed city maps of London, Paris, Rome, Venice, Berlin, Vienna, New York, San Francisco and Washington, DC. They “cover” all the major sights and attractions, along with a few off-beat ones, too.
They’re quirky yet practical. Should you get lost, simply consult your scarf!
Visit Vagablond for the entire story
Trucker says he killed two in Indiana
Police launched a full scale investigation after a confession from Illinois trucker Bruce Mendenhall.
Officers arrested the 56 year old Thursday at a truck stop on Interstate 24 near Nashville, Tennessee.
Mendenhall reportedly confessed to murdering several women including two from in Indiana.
Lt Kevin Kelly, is a detective with the IMPD Homicide Branch. He told us, "(He) admitted, I guess, to being involved in four or five other homicides involving truck stops and prostitutes."
Kelly immediately dispatched a homicide team to the Pilot and Flying J truck stops on South Harding Street. Lt. Kelly says Mendenhall's confession had clear references about the truck stop. "We were canvassing the fields, the trash dumpsters, the out buildings, anything that could conceal a corpse," he said.
Police say Mendenhall mentions specific locations including the White Castle, Hardee's and McDonald's Restaurants.
His rig fits the description of a suspicious truck spotted after a fatal Nashville, Tennessee area murder. Someone murdered a woman found two weeks ago at the truck stop.
Detectives found blood in Mendenhall's semi. And that's not all.
Read the entire story at WTHR Eyewitness News
Officers arrested the 56 year old Thursday at a truck stop on Interstate 24 near Nashville, Tennessee.
Mendenhall reportedly confessed to murdering several women including two from in Indiana.
Lt Kevin Kelly, is a detective with the IMPD Homicide Branch. He told us, "(He) admitted, I guess, to being involved in four or five other homicides involving truck stops and prostitutes."
Kelly immediately dispatched a homicide team to the Pilot and Flying J truck stops on South Harding Street. Lt. Kelly says Mendenhall's confession had clear references about the truck stop. "We were canvassing the fields, the trash dumpsters, the out buildings, anything that could conceal a corpse," he said.
Police say Mendenhall mentions specific locations including the White Castle, Hardee's and McDonald's Restaurants.
His rig fits the description of a suspicious truck spotted after a fatal Nashville, Tennessee area murder. Someone murdered a woman found two weeks ago at the truck stop.
Detectives found blood in Mendenhall's semi. And that's not all.
Read the entire story at WTHR Eyewitness News
Thursday, July 12, 2007
A Hobo goes to Jamaica
This is the start of the band Railroad Earth's journey to Jam in Jamaica tour which took place from 3-26-06 to 4-2-06. Part of an upcoming documentary.
T is for Travel Thursday
Today is Travel and Thirsty Thursday...So I will be keeping most of my posts within the confines of travel and things to quench your thirst.
~C.S. Webbspun
~C.S. Webbspun
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