{"id":350,"date":"2006-04-05T07:50:36","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T07:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp_genova\/?p=350"},"modified":"2006-04-05T07:50:36","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T07:50:36","slug":"food_for_though-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/food_for_though-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Food For Thought &#8211; Chocolate Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To learn more about the Yaletown shop Chocoatl and pairing beverages and other foods with chocolate, click <a href=\"\/2006\/04\/pacific_palate_-7.html\">here<\/a> for a previous entry.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/various\/img_1529.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Img_1529\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Img_1529\" src=\"\/images\/various-small\/img_1529.JPG\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> The most fascinating gadget I saw at the recent IACP convention in Seattle was a device used to make chocolate from ground-up cocoa beans.&nbsp; This is meant to be a home-based system, invented by John Nanci of Yoncalla, Oregon.&nbsp; Also known as &#8216;Alchemist John&#8217;, he&#8217;s a chemist who decided to try making his own chocolate from cocoa beans after tasting some that <a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/various\/img_1532.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Img_1532\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Img_1532\" src=\"\/images\/various-small\/img_1532.JPG\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> was hand-made by a woman in Oaxaca, Mexico.&nbsp; If you want to learn more about John&#8217;s starter kits, visit his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatealchemy.com\/\">Chocolate Alchemy<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/various\/img_1530.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Img_1530\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Img_1530\" src=\"\/images\/various-small\/img_1530.JPG\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> To listen to this week&#8217;s edition of Food For Thought in streaming Real Audio, click <a href=\"\/files\/fft_week14-06.ram\">here.<\/a> <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To learn more about the Yaletown shop Chocoatl and pairing beverages and other foods with chocolate, click here for a previous entry. The most fascinating gadget I saw at the recent IACP convention in Seattle was a device used to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/food_for_though-15\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}