Thursday, June 05, 2003


kona drought & more healthy chocolate

as a big fan of kona coffee from smith farms and john langenstein in the bodum santos vac-pot, i'm deeply distressed to hear about the drought that is currently devastating the kona area. up to 50% of the crop could be lost. . . meaning lost revenue for farmers as consumers balk at the naturally higher prices. . .

what's great is that the article actually quotes bob smith of smith farms, whose wife cea is not only a wonderful wonderful person, but also an alt.coffee regular and scaa e-member.

i can't go a week here without another book or serious peer-reviewed research study proclaiming the health benefits of dark chocolate. green tea? red wine? nah, it's the chocolate i turn to when i need to boost my supply of heart-healthy oils and cancer-fighting flavonoids. . .

and on this note, i ordered another two bars of slitti lattenero from our pal clay gordon at chocophile, who alas has stopped shipping for the summer already. we'll catch up with ya in the fall, clay!

while we're waiting for safe shipping temperatures to return, we new yorkers can spend our summer days wandering through the chocolate exhibit set to open next week at the natural history museum. long-time readers may recall that i've written about this exhibit before.

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