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A Taste For Chocolate is a one-of-a-kind company offering personalized chocolate tastings just in time for Valentine's Day.

I admit to jumping on the chocolate bandwagon in that everyone is predicting 2006 to be the year of artisanal, single origin cacao bean chocolate.

That is good news for Tracey Edelist the woman behind A Taste For Chocolate. This speech pathologist/chocolate aficionado offers personalized chocolate tastings in the comfort of your home.

She comes to your home and tells you a brief history of chocolate, some background on how fine chocolate is made and then you get to sample some fine quality chocolate.

For example there are three cacao beans. First the Forastero bean which makes up 80 percent of the world's chocolate bars. It's an inferior bean found in your every day chocolate bar... which has a lot of sugar in them to compensate.

Then there's the Criollo and Trinitario, a hybrid of Criollo and Forastero, used in about 20% of chocolate.

It's all fascinating. Tracey's passion for chocolate is infectious. And as far as I know she's the only one offering personalized chocolate tasting.

Tracey charges $250.00 for up to 10 people, and $16 for each additional person. A tasting lasts one and a half hours and includes six tastings.

*Please Note: A Taste For Chocolate prices have changed since the article was published.

Read the original article: http://www.cbc.ca/metromorning/beyond_burgers/index.html#taste

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