Lake Champlain Chocolates Offers Free Factory Tours - Free Chocolate-Making Demonstrations 9/10, 10/22 & 11/12/2005 - Picked As ?Yankee Magazine Editor?s Choice?
Burlington, VT (ContentDesk) June 7, 2005 -- Lake Champlain Chocolates (LCC) announced today that it was named an Editors' Choice in the Yankee Magazine Travel Guide to New England, an honor reserved for noteworthy travel destinations.
Free guided factory tours are offered weekdays on the hour from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM at the 750 Pine Street, Burlington, Vermont location.Melt in your mouth aromas greet you at the door to the 750 Pine Street factory & caf?, where visitors satisfy all their senses while learning the story "from bean to chocolate to you."
Knowledgeable, friendly tour guides explain the history of the company as well as cocoa bean growing, harvesting, fermenting, conching, tempering, and molding.
Favorite processes to watch are chocolate enrobing, depositing, molding, packaging, and hand painting of the chocolates.
For those who can't travel to Vermont, an online version of the tour is at www.lakechamplainchocolates.com.While learning how chocolates are made, guests see and sample fresh, delicious confections made right before their eyes.
Throughout the year, visitors can experience live chocolate-making demonstrations given by professional chocolatiers.
Demonstrations are currently scheduled for September 10, October 22, and November 12, 2005 at 1:00 PM (call 802-864-1807 for additional dates and times).
In addition to general tips and advice on how to turn chocolate into delectable treats, table tempering and shell molding are explained.
Guests learn from chocolatiers in a relaxed atmosphere, with the opportunity to have their chocolate-making questions answered by a professional.
Praised as "some of the best chocolate in the country" by The New York Times, Lake Champlain Chocolates are sought after and sold nationwide.
The Factory Store & Caf? offers chocolates & confections, apparel, gift cards, and deep discounts on slightly imperfect factory seconds.
The caf?, which overlooks the chocolate factory floor, offers hot and cold chocolate & espresso drinks, tea, brewed coffee, and LCC All Natural Ice Cream.Now in its 34th year of publication, the Yankee Magazine Travel Guide to New England provides more than 600,000 readers with the insider information they need to fully enjoy travel in the six New England states.
This year's all-new guide includes more than 20 feature stories and essential information for residents and visitors who want to explore their own backyards, or plan the perfect summer vacation.Lake Champlain Chocolates offers sweet indulgences that capture the essence of Vermont, the tradition of making fine chocolate, and the pride that goes into each bite.
Preservative-free and Kosher-certified, Lake Champlain Chocolates are crafted in small batches from the finest quality Belgian chocolate and select natural ingredients including local Vermont cream, sweet butter, maple syrup, honey, fruits, nuts, and other natural flavors.
Lake Champlain Chocolates are available online at www.lakechamplainchocolates.com, toll-free at 1-800-465-5909, as corporate gifts & wedding favors, at three company-owned retail stores in Vermont, and nationwide at specialty food & gift stores and upscale hotels & inns.This press release is online at http://www.lakechamplainchocolates.com/NewsItem.aspx?pn_deptid=469.
A Look at Lactose Intolerance
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Lactose provides 30-50% of the energy in milk, depending on the fat content (skim vs. homogenized).A number of individuals are affected by lactose in the diet, but there is a difference between intolerance and maldigestion. Lactose maldigestion is "a disorder characterized by reduced digestion of lactose due to the low availability of the enzyme lactase." Lactose intolerance is "the term for gastointestinal symptoms (flatulence, bloating, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and 'rumbling in the bowel') resulting from the consumption of...
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Cherry Blossoms Not Just in D.C. ... Also in Columbia Valley, Washington State
Prosser, WA (ContentDesk) March 24, 2006 -- Every spring the National Cherry Blossom Festival attracts millions of visitors to our nations Capitol, but in southeastern Washington State, the number one producer of sweet cherries in the world, theres a quiet, gentler profusion of cherry blossoms, a true feast for the eyes. This year we are projecting our Washington State cherry trees will bloom early-April, says Pamela Montgomery, C.E.O. of the Chukar Cherry Company, a producer of gourmet cherry foods, headquartered in Prosser, Washington, the heartland of the Washington State cherry industry. This beautiful, bountiful place in the Columbia Valley has the ideal growing conditions for cherries; cool nights, warm days, deep and sandy soil, little rainfall and controlled irrigation. Fresh or dried, these cherries are a year round treat... and cause for celebration, Mrs.
Montgomery explains. During late winter and early spring at the cherry orchards, emerging fruit buds, waking...
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Exceptions Break The Rule
The golden rule isn't: "Treat others as you want to be treated... unless they tick you off." Nor does the commandment "Thou shalt not steal" come with restrictions or blackout periods. It's a rule ? a very powerful rule ? that should be followed in all circumstances. Any exception would break the rule completely. What's the point of a rule, goal, or plan if you don't follow it? If you're not willing to follow a plan, idea, or goal straight through, then don't bother pretending.
You're only setting yourself up for disappointment. You'll be creating exceptions and restrictions that serve the purpose of making temptations easier to serve. For the Diet Seekers... Let me put it another way. Let's say you're following a strict diet where you can eat certain foods but abstain from desserts and sweets.
And let's also say that if you were to follow the diet unequivocally, you'd lose the desired amount of weight. So why do you create excuses when that mouthwatering piece of chocolate...
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Company Forevergreen on a Mission Standing in the Drift
(ContentDesk) November 11, 2005 -- What does it mean to be "standing in the drift"? "Standing in the drift" refers to standing for the things you want most for humanity in spite of the direction in which the world may be moving. The drift is all the things that could prevent you from accomplishing what you want. Turn on the television and you see war, murder, drugs, hate. Like all currents, it flows downhill to the darkest capacities of the human spirit. For all companies, this drift is a constant tug towards corruption, fraud and dog-eat-dog ethics.
ForevergreenWe're not kicking and screaming when we find ourselves drifting downward towards spiritual oblivion. It is quite comfortable, for nothing other than the fact that we have so much company drifting along with us. But how irresponsible is that? Safety in numbers is an illusion on this raging river. www.buyfrequensea.comBecause the drift is so encompassing, some may...
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A Guide to Fruit Baskets
There is almost no occasion, event or holiday gift that can't be properly addressed by sending some kind of fruit basket. From humble beginnings as a device fruit growers used to expand their business beyond supermarkets, fruit baskets have become one of the most popular categories of gifts in the country. No longer is this merely a device for fruit growers to send out more of their freshly grown produce at retail prices.
Nowadays, many of the items advertised, sold and shipped as fruit baskets contain hardly any fruit at all. Fruit baskets have matured -- come of age, as they say -- and it's possible to satisfy a gift giving need by ordering a fruit basket from any of literally thousands of suppliers across the country.
You'll find that many of the local retail stores in town have some form of fruit basket deal to ship their wares, if not all year round, then certainly at appropriate holiday times. For at least two major gift-giving holidays, Mother's Day and...
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Aphrodisiac Dinner Date
Dinner dates with new companions can make or break a budding romance.
First dates can be nerve racking.
Planning the date can be particularly difficult.
Where should you go, what should you do and what would be enjoyable?
You might worry that your date will not like the restaurant, the food or worse yet, the company.
Once the date begins you may sometimes struggle with conversation, feel awkward and suffer from anxiety.
Don't be ashamed, it happens to everyone.The absolute best and incomparable sort of dinner date you can arrange is one that you prepare yourself at your own home.
In this scenario you can be the male or the female, it does not matter.
When a guy cooks for a girl, the woman feels special, elated, curious and very vulnerable because the man is in complete and total control.
And when the woman cooks for her special guy, she gets to showcase any special culinary talents which can serve as a hint...
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That's the Christmas spirit
Last Christmas, Uncle Albert promised his neighbor, Wilson, to find a way to keep the Christmas spirit alive all year. You know, just like Wilson and everybody else wishes people each year.Yesterday I was checking my calendar. "Holy smokes! It's almost Christmas. I better check to see if Uncle Albert found a way to keep the Christmas spirit alive all year."So I put on my boots and buttoned up my jacket. I dashed out the door.
I came back into the house to put on a scarf. And some gloves. And a hat. And my long-johns. I filled up the thermos with hot chocolate and dug out a pair of ear muffs.
"Yup. That's the Christmas spirit," I thought as I headed out once more, trying to keep my head above the snow.When I reached Uncle Albert's, I could tell something was different. I wasn't sure quite what, but I suspect it had something to do with the large red and gold sleigh parked in his driveway."Say, Uncle Albert. What's with the sleigh?""You like it, Happy Guy? That's part of...
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Gardening - For the Love of Chocolate - New Specialty Nursery Grows "Chocolate" Plants
Imagine a garden filled with chocolate ? chocolate mint; chocolate columbine; chocolate morning glories; chocolate nasturtiums; chocolate daylilies; chocolate foxglove; chocolate sunflowers and much more.Imagination becomes reality this spring at Chocolate Flower Farm where owners Marie Lincoln and Bill Schlicht specialize in growing unusual, rich, dark plants that add a spot of drama and exotic beauty to the garden.
Not just chocolate colored plants but plants in shades of maroon, purple and black and even several plants that smell like chocolate such as Chocolate Cosmos (Cosmos atrosanguiness), Chocolate Flower (Berlandiera lyrata) and Chocolate Vine (Akebia quinata). What came first, the chocolate or the flowers?
"Our nursery is named after Bill's love of chocolate and my passion for gardening.
I already was partial to dark plants and had quite a collection of them in our gardens, thus we combined our two passions and named our farm Chocolate Flower Farm.
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