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Pistachio Gianduja Egg

Eggs

Omne vivum ex ovo. “All life comes from the egg.” Dancing Lion Chocolate’s display case is loaded with freshly-hatched chocolate eggs. Copper-bronze pecan praline (prah’-linn-ay) eggs, small yellow and green pistachio gianduja (zhahn-do’-yeh) eggs, gigantic lacy cacao or tangerine eggs. It’s that time of year. Eggs are an element of …

Workin’

Savory Chef Jeff was in at midnight making croissant dough and dipping Thai chilis in chocolate because he thought it might be …

A Partridge...
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Two Pears

Art for the Holidays

I’m not an artist by accident. My mother is an artist–Ringling School of Art with an impressionist bent; I suspect I acquired …