Tag: Chocolate
Valentine’s Day: the pressures of shopping for romance
Cathrine Jansson-Boyd, Anglia Ruskin University
For many couples, Valentine’s Day is crunch time. Research has shown that romantic relationships...
Chocolate’s secret ingredient is the fermenting microbes that make it taste...
Caitlin Clark, Colorado State University
Whether baked as chips into a cookie, melted into a sweet warm drink or...
Not all candy is candy – at least for tax purposes
Hayes Holderness, University of Richmond
Halloween shoppers have many delicious decisions to make before trick-or-treaters show up at their doors. And in many states, those...
Ghana’s cocoa farmers are trapped by the chocolate industry
Michael E Odijie, University of Cambridge
The chocolate industry is worth more than $80 billion a year. But some cocoa farmers in parts of West...
Unmeltable chocolate and bean-to-bar: A cocoa expert highlights 3 sweet trends
Kristy Leissle, University of Washington, Bothell
‘Tis the season to eat chocolate. And for the chocolate industry, there’s nothing sweeter, since this is the time...
A brief history of the s’more, America’s favorite campfire snack
Jeffrey Miller, Colorado State University
This summer, 45 million pounds of marshmallows will be toasted over a fire in America. Many will be used as...
Most disappointing headline ever (No, chocolate will not improve your memory)
By Ian Musgrave
This morning I woke to the most disappointing headline ever. “A Bite to Remember? Chocolate Is Shown to Aid Memory” was prominent...
EXPLORING NATURE
The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states...
Jennifer Morgan, Tufts University
Two years ago, countries around the world set a goal of “transitioning away from fossil...
