Types of Chocolate

Easy-peasy crispy cakes

8 Aug 2012

What you'll need:

Dark chocolate

Cornflakes

Marshmallows

Steps:

1. Melt the dark chocolate in a bowl over hot water.

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Go nuts

8 Jul 2012

The macadamia is one of the most luxurious of nuts. Large, round, sweet and extremely rich and fatty, the macadamia is also one of the most expensive, largely because the smooth, seamless shell...

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A bitter truth

26 Jun 2012

Everyone loves chocolate. And the more guilty the pleasure, the more we reach for studies which prove that - contrary to received wisdom - chocolate may actually be good for us.

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Into the dark: not all bars are created equal

26 Jun 2012

If the health benefits of chocolate derive from the antioxidants in cocoa, as seems likely, then there's no point eating a Snickers bar and expecting it to help your heart. You're going to need...

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Chocoholics, grin as you thin

27 Mar 2012

Trying to kick your chocolate habit? You may not need to. New evidence suggests that adults who eat chocolate frequently are thinner than those who don't.

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Unusual fillings are tasty treats

12 Oct 2011

Monde Chocolatier on the 10th floor is an interesting discovery: a combined coffee shop and hand-made chocolate emporium. Run by two brothers and operating in Horizon Plaza since 2005, there is no...

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Opinion

Workers pay the price for our bargains

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Howard Winn

Barry Cheung makes waves in Moscow

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Teen foodie dishes up a feast of a cooking website

Hong Kong-born Senna Lamba has just launched Teensum.com, a teen-oriented community website devoted to food and cooking.

'I found there was no specific food website for teens and...

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A 'chocoholic' heaven

Jean-Paul Hevin has the enviable job of creating delicious chocolates and hopes his customers experience the pleasure of eating them.

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Perfect match

Chocolate is a sensuous food that, unfortunately, is rarely used in the kitchen beyond taking the role of sickly sweet filling.

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Budding tastes

WE'VE COME a long way since the Mars Bar. The way some people describe chocolate today, it's hard not to mistake it for oenophile chit chat, with all the 'powerful tannins', 'acidulous...

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Chocoholic immerses himself in his craving, and finds perfection

Chocolates don't just make consumers happy, they keep chefs happy too. Richard Ekkebus (pictured), executive chef of Amber at The Landmark Mandarin Oriental, is a chocoholic - and what better way...

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Rich pickings

Caramel can be fascinating. Starting with one of the most basic of ingredients - sugar - you can make something that is achingly sweet, burnt and bitter or something in between; that is either...

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