ChocoLee opened last Friday in Boston's South End
Ok, I haven't been to this new chocoboutique yet, but I'm dying to go. Why? Because the "Lee" of ChocoLee is the very same Lee Napoli of the South End Buttery who created those delicious Earl Grey Green tea truffles that I blogged about a couple month ago. Interestingly, the ChocoLee boutique is at 83 Pembroke Street, which is the very same location as Choco Choco House, maker of the lovely and fashionably signature chocolate purses. What's going on? Where is Choco Choco? And then I visited the Choco Choco House site only to find that it is under construction! To be continued...

Chocotaste Testing at Boston Magazine
Boston Magazine had the lofty task of taste-testing 6 New England area chocolatiers, including 3 of my faves: Chocolate Springs, La Tene, and Knipschildt.

Chocolate Awards for 2008 were announced today
And Amedei won again (it's 3 years now). The Italian Amedei's Toscano 63% received the 'Golden Bean' award for best bean to chocolate bar. French Valrhona's 70% Guanaja and 64% Manjara took gold. The awards were given out by the UK's Academy of Chocolate.

NYTasting
The New York Times ran a great article today about the emergence of ultra high quality 'dark' milk chocolates to contend with the common foodie opinion that dark chocolate is where it's at and milk chocolate, well, isn't. They also did a tasting of no less that 30 (!) milk chocolates and posted a short article about their favorites here.

Chocolate Biodiesel?
My dear friend Jeff emailed me this link to an article about a chocolate-fueled biotruck that made it from the UK to Timbuktu.

Deluxe Washington Hot Chocolate
And to retouch upon my recent hot chocolate kick, the Washington Post posted this recipe for deluxe hot chocolate that requires no less than 11 ingredients.

And finally, in honor of Valentine's Day, my new Valentine's-Day-heart-red couch is arriving tomorrow (which is Valentine's Day). Happy Valentine's Day! (See pic above).