Around Chicago, a handful of small-batch Chicago chocolatiers are ready for Valentine’s Day. Creating confections that stand with the best anywhere in the world–yes, even Paris–most are trained at ...

Chocolate can make you feel better. It can protect your "good" cholesterol, the HDL, and it does not raise the "bad" LDL. It is thought to guard against strokes and heart attacks by thinning blood, ...

In Woody Allen 's 1973 sci-fi comedy Sleeper, 21st-century doctors marveled at how previous generations once avoided fatty foods like steak, cream pie and hot fudge. "Those were thought to be ...

GLASGOW, Scotland --Good news for chocoholics. The treat favored by millions not only tastes delicious but is healthy for you, American researchers said on Monday. Chocolate contains compounds called ...

Get your fill of Valentine’s Day chocolate while you can. Chances are chocolate could get scarce and expensive, agriculture experts say. The tropical rain forest trees that produce cocoa beans, the ...

In the heart of the lunch hour Tuesday, still a good 24 hours from V-Day, seven customers stood in line at Hearts Desire Chocolates in Rohnert Park, waiting to buy sweet and delectable, perhaps even ...

To make crust: Heat oven to 350 degrees. Stir together vanilla wafer crumbs, sugar, cocoa and melted butter. Press mixture onto bottom and 1/2- to 1-inch up the side of a 9-inch springform pan. Bake 8 ...

A recent viewing of the movie “Chocolat,” set in a French village in the 1950s, had me temporarily convinced that the consumption of chocolate during the 40-day Lenten period must be proscribed by the ...