{"id":351,"date":"2006-04-03T22:42:24","date_gmt":"2006-04-03T22:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp_genova\/?p=351"},"modified":"2006-04-03T22:42:24","modified_gmt":"2006-04-03T22:42:24","slug":"pacific_palate_-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/pacific_palate_-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Palate &#8211; Chocolate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/various\/img_1471.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Img_1471\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Img_1471\" src=\"\/images\/various-small\/img_1471.JPG\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a>Tuesday, April 4th on Pacific Palate, I introduced two young entreprenurial chocolatiers who have a great new chocolate shop in Vancouver&#8217;s Yaletown. Brandon Tam and Themis Velgis have opened <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocoatl.com\/\">Chocoatl<\/a> at 1127 Mainland Street to great acclaim, and I know why.&nbsp; Their hot chocolates are to swoon for.&nbsp; Made from chocolate from one of 15 different countries, they <a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/various\/img_1469.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Img_1469\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Img_1469\" src=\"\/images\/various-small\/img_1469.JPG\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> also can infuse the hot chocolate with natural flavourings from choices such as lavender, hazelnut and rose.&nbsp; I also spoke with Dr. Jordan LeBel about the health benefits now being attributed to dark chocolate.&nbsp; He was speaking on behalf of Poulain chocolate.&nbsp; Poulain chocolate bars, imported from France, are now available in mainstream retailers such as IGA, Shoppers Drug Mart and Save-On Foods.&nbsp; For chocolate pairing information from Dr. Jordan LeBel, click <a href=\"\/files\/poulain_pairing_tasting_tip_sheet.doc\">here<\/a>&nbsp; to download a Word document with the details. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, April 4th on Pacific Palate, I introduced two young entreprenurial chocolatiers who have a great new chocolate shop in Vancouver&#8217;s Yaletown. Brandon Tam and Themis Velgis have opened Chocoatl at 1127 Mainland Street to great acclaim, and I know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/pacific_palate_-7\/\">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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific-palate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}