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Ghirardelli Chocolate Company to Begin Renovation Project at its Flagship Ghirardelli Square Locations in San Francisco
PRNEWSWIRE.COM Led by design firm Eight Inc, the renovation will elevate the guest experience and showcase the unique history of one of the nation’s oldest chocolate companies. A three-phase project, it is slated to be finished by 2024. At least two of the three spaces, along with a pop-up shop, will be open throughout the entire process giving chocolate lovers the ability to visit the company’s flagship site during the renovation.Chocolate Lovers Shrug Off Omicron, Driving Up Cocoa Prices
Demand for chocolate is staying strong even as the omicron virus variant sweeps across the globe. Americans are devouring candy with Christmas season just finished and Valentine’s Day and Easter holidays coming up. Retail chocolate sales are climbing more than 5% a quarter, according to data from Chicago-based researcher IRI. At the same time, there are signs of tightening supplies with top shipper Ivory Coast sending fewer cocoa beans to ports.
Happy Chocolate Cake Day! January 27, 2022
Is Chocolate Milk Good For You? Here’s What a Nutritionist Says
It’s probably thought of as a childhood drink, but chocolate milk might actually be able to help you recover after a workout.
How to Work Dark Chocolate Into Your Diet
If you’re going to eat chocolate, a bar with a higher cacao percentage is a better treat than a milk- or white-chocolate one. Milk chocolate not only has less cacao and fewer flavanols but also contains about twice as much sugar as dark chocolate. White chocolate has cocoa butter but no cacao solids, and as a result, it has no flavonols. Its sugar content is comparable to that of milk chocolate. Click HERE to learn more.