In the hands of chocolatier Thomas Scheiblhofer, high-quality chocolate is turned into beautifully presented truffles.
Godiva, the chocolatier, launched a "baked desserts" line in November, including brownies and chocolate-coconut macaroons.
Even Toblerone, once a quintessential Swiss chocolatier, is now owned by America's Kraft Foods.
Shares in fashion chain French Connection have fallen 7.6% and chocolatier Thorntons 7% after both reported Christmas sales figures.
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Grab an inexpensive lunch at Whole Food's cafe (and then treat yourself to a truffle at Godiva Chocolatier on the ground floor).
The evening's big surprise was the low scores for Jacques Torres Chocolate, the chocolatier of choice for many New Yorkers.
Don't expect to find any newfangled flavors at Mary, the Brussels chocolatier.
Meanwhile a Vienna-based chocolatier, Johann Georg Hochleitner, is preparing to launch a low-fat, camel milk's chocolate - prepared in Austria with powdered camel milk.
At the more upscale Jubilee Chocolatier dessert cafe in Seoul, women line up on the days up to Valentine's Day to buy handmade chocolates that can be customized with their loved one's initials.
The big break for Chuao came in 2005, when it won a coveted award from the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade, helping put the then three-year-old chocolatier on the culinary map.
Named after a cacao-rich region of central Venezuela, Chuao Chocolatier morphed from a single location retail outlet in 2002 into a specialty food up-and-comer in 2005, shipping 2, 000 bars per flavor every month.
The luxury chocolatier sells nothing but chocolate made from superlative cocoa beans -- from Venezuela, Ecuador, the Caribbean, Africa and Madagascar -- in various guises: ganaches, pralines, tarts, cakes and their infamous chocolate eclair.
Forsaking the after-lunch trail ride, I went instead to check out the FarmStead's charcuterie and creamery, my first glimpse of Blackberry's serious commitment to producing its own artisanal foods, which embraces its extensive farm gardens, plus its own butcher, bakers, jam-maker and chocolatier.
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