Showing posts with label chocolate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chocolate. Show all posts
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Abhijit Banerjee's column on food and economics, in The Times of India

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  Abhijit Banerjee writes a monthly column on food (cooking it and eating it) and economics , in The Times of India You can see them all a...
Saturday, August 23, 2025

Chocolate fermentation and its microbiome (coming to desserts near you)

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 The Guardian brings us the latest breakthrough in chocolate science: Scientists claim to have unlocked ‘secret sauce’ needed for fine choco...
Friday, May 9, 2025

Cacao, cocoa, and coca (Etymology meets botany, agriculture and health)

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Cocoa and cacao and coca?  Which one of these three things is different from the other two? (I'll leave the harder question of milk vers...
Monday, April 21, 2025

Food: from luxuries to tragedies--chocolate and peanut butter at the opposite ends of human welfare

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Below are two stories about food, that couldn't be more different (although the foods, chocolate and peanut butter, have some connection...
Monday, February 17, 2025

Climate crisis contributing to chocolate market meltdown

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 The canary in the coalmine that is climate change is starting to show important signs of stress. The Guardian has this story: Climate crisi...
Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Market design coffee m&ms

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  Here's an inside joke, for market design coffee (and candy) fans, particularly for regulars at our market design coffees at Stanford. ...
Sunday, December 27, 2020

Global chocolate production and consumption

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This map  of cocoa production and consumption from the  Cocoa Barometer 2020  would make it easy to guess which way is North (were it not fo...
Sunday, July 26, 2020

Chocolate is good for your heart

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Breaking (good) news on the chocolate science front--from the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology Association between chocolate con...