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- What’s New for the 26th of July:
- A Kinrowan Estate story: chicken pot pieces
- What’s New for the 19th of July: Charles de Lint’s Ottawa novels with a quote from Drink Down the Moon, Gary’s review of Nordic fiddle music, It’s Michele Walther and Irina Behrendt playing Aaron Copland’s ‘Hoe Down’ from his Rodeo album
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Odd Things
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Library and Its Librarian
- What’s New for the Fifth of July: Remembering Jane Yolen; some new Americana and jazz music; Fishing Blues
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Recursive Loops
- What’s New for June 21: Jennifer Stevenson’s ‘Solstice’
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Turkish Coffee
- What’s New for the 7th of June: Foxes in literature, live Balkan music, comforting jazz, Americana jazz, and wonderfully weird fusion jazz; and John Fogerty live
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bloodied Kings
- What’s New for the 24th of May: Gary’s Review of Elizabeth Bear’s White Space novels, iain’s review of the Lonely Signal Burns novellas by her, she reading her own story, ‘The Chains That You Refuse’, and I see Gary has some tasty music reviews fir us as well
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Greensward
- What’s New for the 10th of May: books reviewed by Jennifer Stevenson, music by Teddy Thompson, Americana music from all over, and some live music from John Fogerty
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Walk
- What’s New for the 26th of April: the nature of Stories; some new and newish SF, plus new world, jazz, folk and Americana music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Spring Day
- What’s New for the 12th of April: Some new and recent SF; new Americana, Norwegian folk rock and jazz; and thoughts on War For The Oaks
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Unified Theory of Libraries (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of March: Beer and spirits, in song and text, some new Scandinavian fiddle music and jazz flute music, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Ghostly Librarian
- What’s New for the 15th of March: some DeLint stories for early spring; lots of polskas, Serbian folk rock, progressive jazz, and Nordic music from the archives
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Hedge Witches
- What’s New for the 1st of March: Emma Bull’s War for The Oaks, Rosanne Cash’s ‘Runaway Train’, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, plus new Americana and jazz music
- A Kinrorwan Estate story: Cranachanh
- What’s New for the 15th of February: Some Seanan McGuire fantasy, Alison Bechdel’s latest, Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin; Nordic sounds, old time, Americana and Tex-Mex music
- What’s New for the 1st of February: Kage Baker retrospective; new Americana, Buddhist chants and Finnish songs, new and reissued jazz, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Fireplaces in Kinrowan Hall
- What’s New for the 18th of January: World music and fiction by Amal El-Mohtar
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bridges and Paths plus a Troll
Tag Archives: Chocolate
Alter Eco Dark Blackout 85% Cocoa Chocolate Bar
“I’m sending you some chocolate.” – has there ever been a more wonderful message? “It’s 85% cocoa.” – maybe not so much? I don’t like dark chocolate over 75%. That’s what I’d tell people. All of the chocolate I’d had over … Continue reading
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Tagged Chocolate, Dark Chocolate Is Best Chocolate, food and drink, Organic
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Vivani’s Organic Dark Chocolate Espresso
In spite of the name, Vivani Organic Dark Chocolate Espresso is made by a German company, Ludwig Weinrich GmbH, which been in the business of producing fine chocolates for a century. Like so many contemporary confectioners, Weinrich uses only organic … Continue reading
Sirius Konsum’s Chocolate & Lakkris
I absolutely adore black licorice. Wasn’t always so. I used to turn my nose up at it when I was Trick-or-Treating age, and my father gleefully took the offensive items out of my bag and sighed with happiness at each … Continue reading
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Tagged Chocolate, Icelandic licorice, lakkris, licorice
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Zotter’s Labooko Peru ‘Criollo Cuvée’ 82% chocolate bar
I received this bar, which came in a two-pack, as a gift. It’s some of the best dark chocolate I’ve had in ages. It’s made by the Austrian firm Zotter, which makes organic fair trade bean-to-bar chocolates. They makes tons … Continue reading
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Cadbury Chocolate’s Milk Chocolate with Roasted Almonds & Royal Dark Bars
Cadbury, currently the second largest confectionery manufacturer in the world (behind Mars-Wrigley) has been in the business of making candy for quite some time. Founded in 1824, the company originally focused on beverages – coffee, tea and drinking chocolate. Chocolate … Continue reading
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Tagged Cadbury, Chocolate
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Baylee’s Best Chocolates
I suspected these chocolates would be good when my dog tried to grab them before I could sample them. Even through a manila envelope and padding, apparently, Baylee’s Best Chocolates are powerfully attractive to a sensitive nose. On opening the tooth-dented box, … Continue reading
Remembrance of Things Chocolate
The best hot chocolate I ever had was not in Paris, though some Parisians I know would be very upset to hear that. And honestly, there’s a lot to be said for sitting at a cafe on the Bastille, sipping … Continue reading
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Tagged Chocolate, Hot chocolate, Paris, Vienna
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Dagoba Chocolates: Dagoba Hazelnut, Dagoba Dark Chocolate and Dagoba Xocolatl
You could think of Ashland, Oregon as the home of Southern Oregon University, of the beloved Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and of the Ashland Peach, which was deemed a huge success at the 1893 World’s Fair. Or you might think of … Continue reading
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Tagged Chocolate, Hershey
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Lillie Belle Farms’ Purple Haze 75% Bean To Bar Dark Chocolate
Never open a review with a cliche, right? Well, rules are made to be broken, so … I know they say you can’t judge a book by its cover. Turns out you also can’t judge a chocolate by its wrapper. … Continue reading
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Reece’s Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups and other ones as well
You got your chocolate in my peanut butter! You got your peanut butter in my chocolate! —Reece’s Peanut Butter commercial Admit it, you’ve got a guilty pleasure or two. We all do. Maybe it’s greasy burgers from the dive joint … Continue reading
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