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Valentine's Day Giveaway: Win a Chocolate Truffles Box from Gail Ambrosius

We are big fans of the hand-made truffles from Wisconsin-based chocolatier Gail Ambrosius. So if you're planning to go the chocolate route on Valentine's Day, you'd sure make that honeybunches of yours pretty happy with Gail's six-piece Lover's Box. It includes a heart-shaped Caramel, a Brandied Cherry Cordial, and Passionfruit, Lucille's Vanilla, Cinnamon/Cayenne and Rose truffles. We have five boxes to give away to five lucky readers out there. Enter to win one here!

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Attention Peeps Haters: You May Actually Like the New Chocolate-Covered Peeps

Brand new this year: individually-wrapped chocolate covered Peeps (in both dark and milk chocolate flavors). It's nothing revolutionary, but maybe this is finally where they woo Peeps haters. Biting into it, you don't really think about Peeps. You just taste a chocolate-covered marshmallow blob.

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Need Some Last-Minute Chocolate Ordering Advice?

Revisit our artisanal chocolate taste-test for Valentine's Day orders. You may still be able to swing some of our favorites: Zingerman's Zzang! bars, Liddabit Sweets, BonBon Bar, Fran's Chocolates, and Garrison....

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Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 104: My Five Rules for an Eat-All-Day Diet

This week involved many of these. This past week I realized that simply "Saying No" (my apologies to Nancy Reagan) was not going to cut it on my serious diet; somehow, some way I was going to have to find a way to participate in the gustatory goings-on at SE World HQ and still lose weight (albeit slowly). Why? Because it's just too hard not to. Consider the following eating-oriented festivities that went on during the last seven days (including my birthday on Wednesday) at the office, a mere three feet from my desk: A pepperoni pizza taste test featuring the four big national pizza chains. A frozen pepperoni pizza taste test featuring five brands. A New York wings...

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The Best Artisanal Chocolate Bars

...and patties, nuggets, balls, and bites. Mixed box from Garrison Chocolates. [Photographs: Robyn Lee] No offense to Snickers and Nestle Crunch, but in a perfect world, we'd trick-or-treat and be handed these hand-made chocolates. Inspired by classic Halloween candies, these chocolatiers from all over the country have stepped it up with fancy ganaches, fruit pâtes, pumpkin puree, and (kids, close your eyes) scotch. Ordering these might require a little more effort than hopping into a CVS, but they're pretty special. Check out the five chocolatiers, after the jump....

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Cook the Book: The Essence of Chocolate

In late 2008, Robert Steinberg, co-author of this week's Cook the Book selection, finally succumbed to a two-decade battle with leukemia. Written with business partner John Scharffenberger, The Essence of Chocolate acknowledges Steinberg's bittersweet debt to the disease. For it was his diagnosis with the illness that drove the physician to apprentice himself to a small chocolatier in Lyon, to follow the trail of the cacao bean to Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago, and, in 1996, to co-found Scharffen Berger. The Essence of Chocolate is an extraordinary book. It covers the history, cultivation, and lore of chocolate—and it does it in deft and lucid prose (before he was a doctor or a chocolate maker, Robert Steinberg was an English...

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Too Pretty to Eat (Or Unwrap, For That Matter)

They look like notebooks or planners from a high-end stationery store, but these are actually wrappers to chocolate bars from Mast Brothers Chocolate, which Cool Hunting found in Brooklyn flea market Artists & Fleas. Marrying beautiful packaging with tasty chocolate concoctions, brothers Rick and Michael rely on organic, single-origin Venezuelan and Ecuadorian cacao for their products. Even the packaging paper is imported from Italy. Available at Artists & Fleas (weekends only), Marlow and Sons and Spuyten Duyvil Grocery....

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Black Garlic Chocolates

You've got your milk chocolate, dark, white, and ... garlic? Takko Shoji of Aomori, Japan, has been developing "black garlic chocolate" there. Fermented black garlic is coated with chocolate and sprinkled with cocoa powder. It's got a "sweet-and-sour taste resembling prunes, with the bittersweet taste of chocolate." Perfect for your adventurous valentine (although I'm not sure how much kissing will be done afterwards). [via Japundit]...

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Chocs for Obama

Just in time for Super Tuesday and Valentine's Day: send some Democrat love with a box of Obama chocolate truffles filled with espresso-Cognac ganache. While you're at it, why not pair 'em with his supporter Oprah (who comes raspberry ganache)? Four pieces go for $12.00 at Cosmic Chocolate Shop. [Via The Nibble]...

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More V-Day Chocolates

Another day at Serious Eats world headquarters, another box of chocolates delivered to our door. These chocolates came from Sahagún Handmade Chocolates in Portland, Oregon. Here's what we've tried so far.

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