Cocoa Vino Organic Bonbons
by Kara DiCamillo, Newport, Rhode Island on 05.27.05
Dedicated to celebrating the everyday beauty of life, Cocoa Vino couples two of life’s most sensual pleasures - chocolate and wine. Alisha Lumea and Avril Pendergast-Fischer, both graduates of the French Culinary Institute, have got this recipe perfected. Wine offers a very robust flavor, which makes it a perfect match for chocolate and at Cocoa Vino these delightful bonbons happen to be organic as well. They use Green & Black’s chocolate (oh so yummy!), fresh, all-natural GMO-free cream from a farm in upstate New York and the centers are made with organic and sustainably produced wines and liqueurs from some of the world’s best artisanal producers. The bonbons come in six luscious flavors and 12 are in a box for $27. They make a great gift and Cocoa Vino offers custom boxes for corporate and wedding favors. By themselves or paired with a “companion,” these bonbons are the ultimate pleasure. ::Cocoa Vino [by KD]
May 29, 2005
I wonder if magazine editors are courageous enough to print a Letter To The Editor that is critical to one of their biggest advertisers. This is such a letter, and the moral courage of magazine editors is under test. But this wasn't meant to be offensive, but rather to educate.
Please refer to the full-page advertisement at the back of The Vancouver Courier, today, by Choices Markets, titled, "New Zealand's Finest Choice." This ad is chock-full of imported products.
Sad and disappointing, in my view.
Why? Here are some reasons that you, and Choices management, may not be aware of:
One. UTNE magazine hired a Ph.D. (in several disciplines) conducted a "think" about how just one simple act, by any citizen, could solve the world's problems, instantly. Sounds impossible? The scientist's answer was simple: You must eat nothing that is not grown within 200 miles of where you live! And, he came up with complete, nutritious recipes of organic food grown entirely in his locale, which happened to be a desert. Pretty tough to live entirely on cacti and desert shrubs? Not really, according to this scientist, or UTNE. They said they felt full of vitality and energy on such a local diet. By eating locally, climate-change problems could be eliminated almost overnight, and the retail price of gasoline would crash and burn.
Two. Harpers magazine printed a cover-page story about a doctor who had a surprising, unorthodox therapy for terminal pancreatic cancer patients. He was extending the life of four-fifths of his patients. How? Partly by getting these patients to eat only food from their "ancestral land."
Three. Two weeks ago, I saw statistics showing Vancouver was the six or seventh lowest-income city in Canada. We have little manufacturing done here. As a salesrep myself, I've seen many struggling food manufacturers here that grocery buyers seem to ignore. Are these buyers even aware that, for example, there is at least one certified organic salad oil made in a small towns in BC's interior?
What does Choices Markets' management think of the above information? More importantly, will Choices' customers demand Choices Markets for local products? It is up to the public to put their money where their heart is. Let's see if Vancouverites can really walk their talk!
'Kyoto Bob'
(Kyoto Discount Program - over 100 area shops/eateries offering 5% to 60% off to cyclists when they arrive on a bike.)
May 29, 2005
I wonder if magazine editors are courageous enough to print a Letter To The Editor that is critical to one of their biggest advertisers. This is such a letter, and the moral courage of magazine editors is under test. But this wasn't meant to be offensive, but rather to educate.
Please refer to the full-page advertisement at the back of The Vancouver Courier, today, by Choices Markets, titled, "New Zealand's Finest Choice." This ad is chock-full of imported products.
Sad and disappointing, in my view.
Why? Here are some reasons that you, and Choices management, may not be aware of:
One. UTNE magazine hired a Ph.D. (in several disciplines) conducted a "think" about how just one simple act, by any citizen, could solve the world's problems, instantly. Sounds impossible? The scientist's answer was simple: You must eat nothing that is not grown within 200 miles of where you live! And, he came up with complete, nutritious recipes of organic food grown entirely in his locale, which happened to be a desert. Pretty tough to live entirely on cacti and desert shrubs? Not really, according to this scientist, or UTNE. They said they felt full of vitality and energy on such a local diet. By eating locally, climate-change problems could be eliminated almost overnight, and the retail price of gasoline would crash and burn.
Two. Harpers magazine printed a cover-page story about a doctor who had a surprising, unorthodox therapy for terminal pancreatic cancer patients. He was extending the life of four-fifths of his patients. How? Partly by getting these patients to eat only food from their "ancestral land."
Three. Two weeks ago, I saw statistics showing Vancouver was the six or seventh lowest-income city in Canada. We have little manufacturing done here. As a salesrep myself, I've seen many struggling food manufacturers here that grocery buyers seem to ignore. Are these buyers even aware that, for example, there is at least one certified organic salad oil made in a small towns in BC's interior?
What does Choices Markets' management think of the above information? More importantly, will Choices' customers demand Choices Markets for local products? It is up to the public to put their money where their heart is. Let's see if Vancouverites can really walk their talk!
'Kyoto Bob'
(Kyoto Discount Program - over 100 area shops/eateries offering 5% to 60% off to cyclists when they arrive on a bike.)