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Next week my editor and I are going over to Sunita's place—aka "The Chocolate Garage"—to taste some of the world's best chocolate, and then talk shop. Just another day at the office.
That's the nice thing about writing. You do your work AFTER dessert. Or during. But never before.
Over the past six months, I've brought my cacao ecstasies under control. I have $100 worth of chocolate in my fridge ready for Saturday's "Story of Chocolate" event, and I haven't felt a single twinge of desire. Not a flutter. How do I do it? Well, about a third of that stash is low-grade "industrial" chocolate, made with PGPR, corn syrup, synthetic coloring and a few other ingredients that shall go (for now) nameless. So that's no issue.
The other two thirds are organic dark chocolate bars and a few bunnies I saved from unsuspecting Easter foragers, ranging in flavor notes from pure cacao to raspberries, cherries and blueberries to mint, almonds and hazelnuts. Tougher to resist, but for a pro, not impossible. After all, these are the bars that represent a much healthier, and hopefully much more sustainably sourced, chocolate future.
So, quick update on the book. Cover's all but complete; manuscript in editing right now, but the Foreword is done-written by none other than Dr. Allen Young, respected cacao researcher and the author of "The Chocolate Tree," which figured heavily in my research.
We also have Cacao Love Letters from the founder of the eminently unforgettable C-Spot.com, the head of The Chocolate Garage, the man who sequenced the cacao genome, the director of a Maya Itzà organization in Guatemala, an entomologist and stingless bee expert, a Maya scholar, and others.
What are Cacao Love Letters? Well. You'll just have to wait and see...!
~ Birgitte
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On the way to the writer's studio the other day, two words bumped into each other and couldn't tear each other away. Metaphor and Metamorphosis fused and became...
METAPHORMOSIS.
A process by which one metaphor shifts into another. More explicitly, a process that causes an implicit, implied, or hidden poetic comparison between two apparently unrelated concepts, things, or objects to develop, shift, or evolve into another such comparison involving two other apparently unrelated concepts.
Here's a little metaphormosis story. When you have to choose between doing the right thing for the environment and doing the right thing for a single person, do both. They will ask for your name.
Do you have a Metaphormosis story? I'd love to hear it. And maybe even publish it in a future issue of "The Muse."
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THE STORY OF CHOCOLATE AT HIDDEN VILLA
Saturday, May 10, 2014
1-3pm
For children ages 7-11 (give or take a few months)
LAST FEW DAYS TO SIGN UP!!
We'll explore the history of cacao which dates back 3500 years, learn how to tell chocolate ingredient lists apart, have a cacao treasure hunt, and end with a chocolate/fresh fruit fondue. Can you think of a better way for your kids to spend the day before Mother's Day?
For more information and to register, visit the Hidden Villa events page — scroll down to May 10.
Space is limited and I believe there are only a few spots left, so hurry!
Hidden Villa is an organic farm and educational non profit organization in Los Altos Hills.
*There are no other author speaking events scheduled this month because after this I'll be in a chocolate-induced stupor.
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