Chocolate News
New York’s City Bakery, Known For Hot Chocolate And Croissants, Is Gone
FORBES For nearly three decades, City Bakery in New York City enjoyed cult status. Its founder, Maury Rubin, was everywhere, from introducing a hot chocolate with the Rockettes, to profiles in The New Yorker, New York and Smithsonian magazines. People lined up for the bakery’s famous hot chocolate, salads, sandwiches, chocolate chip cookies, October 20th, and multiple varieties of croissants, including one made from pretzel dough. But on Sunday, City Bakery shut down, becoming the latest gourmet name to leave the Manhattan scene.Research suggests chocolate chip cookies equivalent to drug addiction in the brain
A 2013 paper published by researchers from the University of Bordeaux suggests the ingredients in a chocolate chip cookie triggers the same addictive response in the brain as cocaine and marijuana. A traditional chocolate chip cookie contains 2.5 teaspoons of sugar, which the study says induces some of the same responses as cocaine. As for chocolate, it contains small amounts of a compound that trigger the same part of your brain as the addictive ingredient marijuana, THC, the study says. The two ingredients together create a harmonious flavor that can double the addiction.
Breakthrough research allows for 3-D printed chocolate without temperature control
Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have pioneered a novel approach to 3-D print chocolate-based products at room temperature by cold extrusion.
Happy National Chocolate Day! October 28, 2019
Happy National Chocolate Cupcake Day! October 18, 2019