The Japanese language has a whole category of words for describing specific sensory imagery — how something looks, moves, sounds, tastes, and feels. For example, biri biri can describe a cluster of ...

It may be classic, it may have been done to death, but giving a box of chocolates to someone on Valentine’s Day is never the wrong move. It’s a lovely gesture with a sweet reward. Who doesn’t love ...

Valentine's Day is the single-biggest sales day for chocolate in America. We visit Christian Alexandre and Whanjun Park, the husband-wife team behind artisinal chocolatiers L'Artisan du Chocolat, to ...

Chocolate shops are little places of magic, identifiable by their specific sweet smell and eye-catching gift boxes. While healthy cacao concoctions are on the rise, so too are design-forward chocolate ...

When it comes to chocolates, Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid al Maktoum of Dubai, reportedly serves only Patchi chocolates. The Lebanese brand is said to be the royalty's official choice. Now it looks like ...

While we can’t travel to Paris, we can certainly give the gift of edible art to lovers and loved ones this Valentine’s Day with designer chocolate from La Maison du Chocolat. Haven’t heard of La ...

Chocolatiers use yeasts to ferment the cocoa when making their tasty confections, which helps guard against the occasional bad-tasting batch. Those same yeasts can also be used to alter the aroma, ...

The tour starts at Chocolate Secrets (3926 Oak Lawn Ave., 214-252-9801, chocolatesecrets.net ), where you can get a primer on cocoa percentages with expert Pam Eudaric-Amiri, sign up for wine and ...