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November, 2005 The Tea House Times
The Tea House Times is dedicated to helping busy tea room owners find new products. This time we visited the Chocolate Show in New York City on November 11, 2005. We found a few businesses selling chocolate infused with tea! The most delicious were the earl grey flavored chocolates. Others flavored with green tea were good, but much lighter as far as tasting the tea. This show was open to the trade only on the first day, and then following days open to the public as well. An exhibit displayed the process of making chocolate and it was a real learning experience. Making chocolate is very labor intense, not unlike tea! There were also children's activities (for young children), and there was also a mini exhibit on the history of chocolate; very interesting. We tasted everything from chocolate flavored teas to dessert wines to brownies, truffles, chocolates of every variety size and shape, hot chocolate and more. There was even an artist with chocolate oil paintings! Yes, you could eat them apparently (if you could afford to!). Here are some highlights of the show. For more information, visit www.chocolateshow.com American Museum of CANDY History~ www.candymuseum.org Anna Shea Chocolates ~ www.annasheachocolates.com The Rose Cream hearts caught our eye: white chocolate ganache with a hint of rose water. French and Belgian chocolates with creative unusual flavors. And pretty packaging. Avenue A Cards, Inc.~ www.ediclouet.com Postcards, Notecards, Posters, Tin-Plaques, Tin-Boxes all with nostalgic scenes & food product labels. Baking by Design~ www.bakingbydesign.net Custom Wedding and Specialty Cakes. Gourmet cookies and novelties. High heeled shoe cookie cutter filled with chocolate. Big Tips Candy~ www.bigtipscandy.com 15 classic old-time chocolate bars including Big Cherry, Rocky Road, Bun, Twin Bing, Peanut Butter Mountain, Nut Roll, U-NO, Idaho Spud, Goo Goo Cluster, Peanut Chews, Old Faithful, Nut Goodie, Skybar, and Clark. Bissingers~ www.bissingers.com A full range of handcrafted chocolates, decorated sugar cubes, chocolate lace, dessert shells, truffles, petits fours, toffee, chocolate dipped orange slices, chocolate covered cherries, barks, frosting, hot chocolate, AND Green Tea Gummy Pandas (lightly sweet, very good if you like gummies), AND Green Tea Ganache truffles with lemongrass. Chocolate Confessions~ www.chocolateconfessions.com A one-woman musical comedy about love, life, and chocolate! Chocolate Spa~ Yes, the Chocolate Show had a "spa" area where you could pay for a chair massage to avoid trade show burnout. Having never experienced a chair massage, we can tell you it was great! Especially great after lugging around tons of brochures. Lewis Harrison www.nostressspeaker.com Chocolatier~ www.chocolatiermagazine.com A magazine all about chocolate with great recipes too. Recchiuti Confections www.recchiuti.com , Chocolates by Francois Payard (Payard Patisserie & Bistro serves tea 3:30-5pm www.payard.com) Delicious. Some flavors include: Bergamot Tea: Dark Chocolate Ganache infused with Earl Grey tea, swirrled with Bergamot essence; Lemon Verbena: dark chocolate ganache infused with fresh lemon verbena; Pearl Mint Tea: dark chocolate ganache infused with pearled mint and green tea, accented with a milk chocolate button; Spring Jasmine Tea: Dark chocolate ganache infused with jasmine blossoms and green tea leaves. Very elegant and seriously tasty chocolates. Dina's Chocolate~ www.dinaschocolate.com Organic Dark Chocolate infused with Organic Japanese Green tea. Deep, dark chocolate taste, light green tea flavor. Serendipitea~ www.serendipitea.com A full range of teas. Exhibited at the show: Chocolate & coconut tea, chocolate and orange tea, chocolate & vanilla & rooibos spiced tisane, chocolate& vanilla & rooibos & green tea. With real bits of dark chocolate. Tasty! Sid Chidiac Chocolate Painting~ www.sidchidiac.com Sid's oil and chocolate paintings have been exhibited all over the world.
This is only a handful of the companies exhibiting at the show, but we thought our website visitors and the tea room owners would be most interested in these. Enjoy your quest for tea infused chocolates, art, and entertainment!
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