The Chocolate-Coffee Conundrum

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Russian scientists turn waste blood into
milk, yogurt, chocolate, and coffee

Russian scientists turn waste blood into
milk, yogurt, chocolate, and coffee 07/18/2004 01:28 PM
Ever wanted to be a vampire, but couldn't stand the sight of blood? Some scientists in Russia claim they've got the answer for you. Noticing that the typical meat packing plant produces 7 tons of blood a day, they've come up with a process to convert the proteins in the blood into the basic ingredients for "milk, yogurt, chocolate, and coffee." I'd say "I'll believe it when I taste it," but I don't believe I'll be tasting it, thank you very much. Link (Thanks, Klintron!)

Coffee With Networking for Macmillan's
World's Biggest Coffee Morning

Coffee With Networking for Macmillan's
World's Biggest Coffee Morning 09/13/2004 03:17 AM
Worlds Biggest Coffee Morning Event to auction off lots from original works of art to lunch with IT/telecoms journalists. Great fun for a great cause. [PRWEB Sep 13, 2004]

DSL Conundrum

DSL Conundrum 07/08/2004 08:37 AM
G4 Tech TV Jul 8 2004 1:24PM GMT

Copy conundrum

Copy conundrum 05/13/2004 06:35 AM
USA Today May 13 2004 10:54AM GMT

China conundrum

China conundrum 04/12/2004 07:37 AM
CNET Asia Apr 12 2004 11:58AM GMT

The connection conundrum: 3G or Wi-Fi?

The connection conundrum: 3G or Wi-Fi? 05/17/2004 04:34 PM
ZDNet May 17 2004 7:42PM GMT

Health care conundrum

Health care conundrum 06/20/2004 03:53 AM
Boston Globe Jun 20 2004 7:13AM GMT

gladwell dot com / The Ketchup Conundrum

gladwell dot com / The Ketchup Conundrum 09/24/2004 11:41 PM
gladwell dot com / The Ketchup Conundrum .. ketchup

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Cousin Marriage Conundrum

Cousin Marriage Conundrum 12/17/2004 06:42 PM
Cousin Marriage Conundrum [...]By fostering intense family loyalties and strong nepotistic urges, inbreeding makes the development of civil society more difficult. Many Americans have heard by now that Iraq is composed of three ethnic groups -- the Kurds of the north, the Sunnis of the center, and the Shi'ites of the south. Clearly, these ethnic rivalries would complicate the task of ruling reforming Iraq. But that's just a top-down summary of Iraq's ethnic make-up. Each of those three ethnic groups is divisible into smaller and smaller tribes, clans, and inbred extended families -- each with their own alliances, rivals, and feuds. And the engine at the bottom of these bedeviling social divisions is the oft-ignored institution of cousin marriage[...]

Google bidding conundrum: To bid now or
later?

Google bidding conundrum: To bid now or
later? 08/15/2004 07:43 AM
ExpressIndia.com Aug 15 2004 11:39AM GMT

The Internet content conundrum

The Internet content conundrum 11/01/2003 07:37 PM
There's more Web content than ever, but Knowledge@Wharton examines whether profits will become part of that picture.

A Real Google Conundrum

A Real Google Conundrum 04/11/2005 02:27 PM
"I have a well-established site that over the past few days has lost almost all its Google referals. I think I know what's wrong but have no idea how to fix it."

Catch-22, Linking Conundrum

Catch-22, Linking Conundrum 12/30/2002 07:43 AM
"...our main competitor has been online for 6 years. back in those good ol' days, the word reciprocal was not a buzz word. people gave links freely without a demanding tit for tat. "

Microsoft's Patching Conundrum

Microsoft's Patching Conundrum 12/11/2003 02:27 PM
Details of two potentially serious IE browser flaws have been disclosed ahead of the availability of patches.

Online Games Pose Carrier Conundrum

Online Games Pose Carrier Conundrum 06/10/2004 08:41 PM
Lightreading.com - Thu Jun 10, 01:35 am GMT

Iran conundrum Breaking codes is
virtually impossible, experts believe

Iran conundrum Breaking codes is
virtually impossible, experts believe 06/15/2004 11:54 AM
BBC Jun 15 2004 4:05PM GMT

I have seen God in a cup of chocolate

I have seen God in a cup of chocolate 06/05/2005 11:42 PM
Cory Doctorow: I don't hardly eat sugar, and I practically never eat dessert, but last night, Ben Hammersley took me to Hemingway's, a chocolate joint in Florence, Italy. I have never, ever tasted anything remotely as good as the things I tasted last night. I ate so much chocolate that I sweated it all night. It was completely worth it. Examine this picture of me closely: that expression on my face is chocolate ecstasy.

There were many delicious things on offer at Hemingway's, but two were so good as to be life-changing. The first was a flourless, eggless dark chocolate torte, which had the consistency of the inside of a truffle and was served slightly chilled. Every mouthful of this made me feel like something important in my mouth was bursting. There were medieval princes who spent lifetimes searching for experiences that did this sort of thing to your sensory apparatus. Whatever they found was nothing so good as this.

But the very best was their Mexican-style drinking chocolate, called the Montezuma, a viscous drink made with very bitter chocolate, seasoned with chillies, aged Cuban rum (I don't drink, either, but I had two of these), and cinnamon and nutmeg. The longer I held sips of Montezuma in my mouth, the more flavors and subtleties I discovered. The chillies suffused my sinuses and the rum made my whole abdomen glow gently, like banked coals. This was, without a doubt, the best thing I ever tasted, and possibly the best sensation I've ever experienced. I've seen people in religious ecstasy. That's what this felt like.

Afterwards, I fell asleep for half an hour on the sofa in Hemingway's, collapsed on one of my dining companions. My brain was overwhelmed with the tastes, and it had to shut my body off so that it could process the input. I have a feeling that from now on, whenever a little money finds its way into my pocket, the temptation to blow it on a plane ticket to Florence (cheap from London, as these things go) and have a cup of Hemingway's Montezuma is going to be nigh-irresistible. I no longer feel the need to blow my cash on computers or gadgets -- just hook an IV of this thing straight into my arm and leave me to die by chocolate. Link

chocolate chocolate chocolate

chocolate chocolate chocolate 03/17/2005 03:20 AM
Chocolate is so damn good I keep seeing boutique chocolate companies popping up everywhere (like this one: www.delicioustruffles.com). And now Pete of Pete's Wicked Ale has started one (www.cocoapetes.com) Which begs the question is chocolate the next beer? Is America about to be deluged with extraordinary chocolates like we've been hit with microbrews? And why has it taken so damn long?

Pork Chocolate Bar??

Pork Chocolate Bar?? 06/22/2004 07:02 PM
Chocolate dipped pork fat is now on the menu in one of the Ukraine's trendiest restaurants. Because regular pork fat isn't chocolately enough.

Death by Chocolate

Death by Chocolate 06/23/2004 12:21 PM
Welcome to tropical Ivory Coast, the small African nation that is home of almost half of the world's cocoa exports! Visit the sandy beaches! Get kidnapped and disappeared by government officials!

Nokia's chocolate box

Nokia's chocolate box 01/22/2004 02:10 AM
Maybe Nokia knows something we don't about what the ladies really want for Valentine's Day, but in Japan they're selling a special box of...

Chocolate for XDoclet 0.2.0

Chocolate for XDoclet 0.2.0 11/02/2003 05:24 AM
An EJB designer tool with XDoclet support for Borland JBuilder.

Roulette Chocolate

Roulette Chocolate 08/14/2004 04:55 AM
Firebox™ Chocolate-Chili Russian Roulette .. fudgy yumyums

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Chocolate sneakers

Chocolate sneakers 06/24/2005 06:24 PM
Xeni Jardin:
An anonymous reader sent this image, identifying it as the creation of some dude named Al Cabino. It is said to be a sneaker constructed from pure Swiss chocolate. This blog posts the same info. It's either a silly hoax, or a brilliant exercise in choco-licious but impractical footwear.

Your Password For A Chocolate Bar, A
Pen, Or Nothing At All

Your Password For A Chocolate Bar, A
Pen, Or Nothing At All 04/19/2004 07:01 PM
Last year we pointed to a study saying that people would give you their password in exchange for a cheap ballpoint pen, and this year the prize has changed, but the result is the same. A new study shows that all it takes is a chocolate bar and plenty of people will cough up their passwords. Of course, what they don't realize is that whoever was giving out the chocolate bars was the real sucker. A study last month showed that people will cough up all sorts of info if you just ask for it, without giving anything in return.

Why does my dog smell like chocolate?

Why does my dog smell like chocolate? 05/06/2004 11:21 PM
letting the online community explain the eternal questions.

Cake with your Chocolate

Cake with your Chocolate 03/14/2005 06:01 PM

« Best chocolate cake ever.... »

I have a puppy who doesn't often let me relax on the couch in the evening but somehow sleeps contentedly on the kitchen floor if I am baking something, so I have been baking a bit more than usual lately. I was looking for a cooking pan one evening and rediscovered the gothic cathedral Bundt pan I've had for a few years that I'd forgotten about and thought about making a Bundt cake that would appeal to the Finnish dessert palate. I figured I could make the cake for some friends we were having over but I would subject my coworkers to a test cake to see if they liked it as much as I guessed they might. It's funny how so many products in Finland claim 'Authentic American Taste' but how few of them are anywhere near the actual taste and, when given something that really does taste like it does back home, how few Finns really enjoy it. I have learned through trial and error that it is a rare American dessert that appeals to the Finnish palate. The cake is very chocolatey, not overly sweet and the whipped cream and raspberries are a near constant feature in Finnish desserts.

As a disclaimer, I'm not all that crazy about chocolate cakes, but if I had tasted the batter before I poured it all into the pan and shoved it into the oven, I could have easily decided to eat the entire bowl of batter myself instead of having only the spatula to lick the remainder from. I think a couple of people at work went back for a second piece so it's safe to say that it was well received. I made the first cake with kermaviili because I didn't think that Finland really had a true sour cream and kermaviili was reasonably close to the mark. The second cake I made with smetana, which I was told was more like sour cream than kermaviili. Kermaviili is about 10% fat, smetana is about 47% fat and American sour cream is somewhere around 21% fat. Of the two cakes, the kermaviili cake was far better because it was more moist and less rich than the smetana cake. I think this is one of the few occasions where less fat is better than more.

Don't overdo the mixing as it will introduce too much air into the batter and cause the cake to rise more than it should. I used my standing mixer for the first cake and noticed that I really didn't need it save for the creaming of the butter and sugar. The cake release should be used on any pan you use, even if it is the most stick-free teflon on the market. Wrap cake in foil or plastic wrap after cooling for an hour or two if you don't plan to eat it right away to help keep the cake moist.

The Best Chocolate Bundt Cake

Serves: 12 to 14
Special equipment: Bundt or tube pan
Time: about 90 minutes
Source: Cook's Illustrated

Cake Release

• 1 tablespoon butter, melted
• 1 tablespoon cocoa

Cake

• 3/4 cup (2.25 oz) or 1,75dl cocoa, natural (not Dutch-processed)
• 6 oz or 170g bittersweet chocolate (2 100g bars of Fazer baking chocolate which leaves a few bits for eating.)
• 1 teaspoon instant espresso powder (optional)
• 3/4 or 1.75dl cup water (boiling)
• 1 cup (8.75 oz) or 2,5dl sour cream (kermaviili not smetana if in Finland), room temperature
• 1.75 cups or 4,25dl unbleached all-purpose flour 
• 1 teaspoon table salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda 
• 12 tablespoons(1.5 sticks) or 170g unsalted butter, room temperature
• 2 cups (14 oz) or 4,75dl light brown sugar 
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 
• 5 large eggs, room temperature
• confectioners' sugar for dusting

FOR THE PAN:

1. Stir together butter and cocoa in small bowl until paste forms; using a pastry brush, coat all interior surfaces of standard 12-cup Bundt pan. (If mixture becomes too thick to brush on, microwave it for 10 to 20 seconds, or until warm and softened.)
2. Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position; heat oven to 350F/175C degrees.

FOR THE CAKE:

1. Combine cocoa, chocolate, and espresso powder (if using) in medium heatproof bowl; pour boiling water over and whisk until smooth. Cool to room temperature; then whisk in sour cream.
2. Whisk flour, salt, and baking soda in second bowl to combine.
3. In standing mixer fitted with flat beater, beat butter, sugar, and vanilla on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
4. Reduce speed to medium and add eggs one at a time, mixing about 30 seconds after each addition and scraping down bowl with rubber spatula after first 2 additions.
5. Reduce to medium-low speed (batter may appear separated); add about one third of flour mixture and half of chocolate/sour cream mixture and mix until just incorporated, about 20 seconds.
6. Scrape bowl and repeat using half of remaining flour mixture and all of remaining chocolate mixture; add remaining flour mixture and beat until just incorporated, about 10 seconds.
7. Scrape bowl and mix on medium-low until batter is thoroughly combined, about 30 seconds.
8. Pour batter into prepared Bundt pan, being careful not to pour batter on sides of pan.
9. Bake until wooden skewer inserted into center comes out with few crumbs attached, 45 to 50 minutes.
10. Cool in pan 10 minutes, then invert cake onto parchment-lined wire rack; cool to room temperature, about 3 hours.
11. Dust with confectioners' sugar, transfer to serving platter, and cut into wedges; serve with Tangy Whipped Cream and raspberries, if desired.

Tangy Whipped Cream

• 1 cup or 2,50dl heavy cream (cold)
• 1/4 cup or ~.60dl sour cream 
• 1/4 cup or ~.60dl packed light brown sugar 
• 1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract 

With electric mixer, beat all ingredients, gradually increasing speed from low to high, until cream forms soft peaks, 1.5 to 2 minutes.

Lightly Sweetened Raspberries

• 3 cups or 7dl fresh raspberries gently rinsed and dried
• 1 - 2 tablespoons granulated sugar 

Gently toss raspberries with sugar, then let stand until berries have released some juice and sugar has dissolved, about 15 minutes.

The best chocolate in Paris

The best chocolate in Paris 12/19/2004 03:21 PM
From the Sunday New York Times comes this delicious article, In Paris, Boutiques and Cafes Where Chocolatiers Raise the Bar. Herewith, then, a guide to Paris for the chocolate aficionado. It is by no means exhaustive; the Paris phone book has several pages of listings for chocolatiers, but I think this represents a selection of those most worthy of your time. It contains a good listing of the top spots in the city. Closer to home, if your home happens to be New York City, is the Chocolate Bar. Oddly enough, I've never visited this place, even though it's so close to my house. When I first moved to NYC, I assumed I'd go here regularly, and yet it's never happened. Perhaps this afternoon I'll pay them a visit. All this reading and thinking about chocolate has made me hungry!

Chocolate Mousse in RDF

Chocolate Mousse in RDF 12/02/2003 01:55 AM
Mark Pilgrim: All hierarchies, directories, and schemas are necessarily biased by the worldview of the person creating them, and mine is no exception.

Will trade passwords for chocolate

Will trade passwords for chocolate 04/19/2004 05:46 PM
According to this Security Pipeline article, nearly three quarters of office workers in an impromptu man-on-the-street survey were willing to give up their passwords when offered the bribe of a chocolate bar. Heh. Heaven only knows what they'd fork over for venti latte with extra foam. Link (Thanks, Mitch!)

Martha's Bread And Chocolate

Martha's Bread And Chocolate 07/19/2004 03:18 PM

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I'll Have 10,000 Chocolate Bars to Go,
Please (Reuters)

I'll Have 10,000 Chocolate Bars to Go,
Please (Reuters) 05/05/2004 08:15 AM
Reuters - A woman with an apparently insatiable sweet tooth stunned staff at a British shop when she bought more than 10,000 chocolate bars and had them loaded into her chauffeur-driven limousine.

New hacking tool: chocolate

New hacking tool: chocolate 04/20/2004 07:29 PM

Giving Up Passwords For Chocolate

Giving Up Passwords For Chocolate 04/20/2004 08:35 AM

Chocolate May Contain Health Benefits
(AP)

Chocolate May Contain Health Benefits
(AP) 02/10/2004 04:06 PM
AP - Those chocolates that make your Valentine's heart go pitty-pat may also help keep that heart running longer and stronger.

Beyond Delicious: Could Chocolate Also
Be Good for You?

Beyond Delicious: Could Chocolate Also
Be Good for You? 02/16/2004 07:53 PM
Raw cocoa contains flavonoids, plant-based compounds with protective antioxidants like those in green tea.

Would you trade your password for
chocolate?

Would you trade your password for
chocolate? 05/28/2004 08:08 AM
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Computer Password For Chocolate?

Computer Password For Chocolate? 04/19/2004 11:12 PM
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Chocolate cake and butter

Chocolate cake and butter 03/06/2004 01:54 AM
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