Posts Tagged ‘Chocolopolis’

Chocolate Secrets from Christopher Elbow

Lauren Adler, owner of Chocolopolis and Christopher Elbow

Lauren Adler, owner of Chocolopolis and Christopher Elbow

The following post was published in Foodista, the online cooking encyclopedia July 17, 2011

As readers of my previous posts on chocolate may know, my favorite all time chocolate maker is Christopher Elbow, whose chocolates are so stunning they could accessorize a Chanel suit.  (And taste so good I’ve already decided that if I should ever find myself on death row, my last meal will be five pounds of his assorted chocolates.)  So you can imagine how thrilled I was to hear that he’d left his Kansas kitchen and was in Seattle last Saturday to help celebrate the third anniversary of Chocolopolis, the designer chocolate shop that also ranks high on my grooviest things in this world list
(largely because they stock Elbow chocolates). Read More…

Everything Is Broken

I went to the chocolate store and dropped my brand new Craigslist camera on the floor.  Broke the lens, broke my heart, bought some chocolate and came home broke.  Everything is broken.  How’d it happen so fast?  Glorious day, sun screaming from a sky so blue you’d swear you stepped outside and straight into a cartoon.   Then it all went to Hell in a hand basket, so to speak.  Here’s how it all started . . .  Read More…