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		<title>Follow-Up Post: Intentional Deception</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A year and a half ago, in collaboration with colleague Steve DeVries, I posted about several beleaguered initiatives and failed businesses of serial chocolate entrepreneur Jim Walsh. Read the whole troubling story here. We’re back with an update.
First, the lawsuit filed by Deepak Chopra against Jim Walsh – and Walsh’s cross complaint against Chopra – [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bittersweetnotes.com/2244-follow-up-post-intentional-deception</link>
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		<title>The chocolate I kept eating in 2014</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven’t already guessed from my fixation on chocolate, I am a bit of an obsessive. More specifically, I repeatedly, habitually return to things that I enjoy, trying to know them ever better – listening to favorite songs on repeat for days on end, rereading favorite books, rewatching favorite movies, sniffing favorite scents ad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bittersweetnotes.com/2227-the-chocolate-i-kept-eating-in-2014</link>
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		<title>Chocolate class at Harvard Extension School, Spring 2015</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be teaching my class Chocolate, Culture, and the Politics of Food at the Harvard Extension School this Spring semester 2015, as an open enrollment class. Anyone in the world (who meets these registration guidelines and who can afford to enroll) can take it. It&#8217;s my hope that this class will be the first step [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bittersweetnotes.com/2213-chocolate-class-at-harvard-extension-school-spring-2015</link>
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		<title>Level Up Your Chocolate Game This Halloween</title>
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[Image: Halloween Candy by whistlepunch]
According to a survey conducted by the National Confectioners Association, candy sales are expected to reach $2.5 billion this Halloween season. While we often think of Halloween candy as varied and available in seemingly endless quantities, it lacks a certain diversity – just 3 companies (Mars, Hershey’s, and Nestlé) produce 99.4% [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bittersweetnotes.com/2189-level-up-your-chocolate-game-this-halloween</link>
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		<title>7 Gift Ideas For the Chocolate Lover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wondering what to gift the serious chocophile in your life? Here are 7 ideas for the holiday season.
1. Cocoa Pods

[Photograph: The Cocoa Pod shop]
Cocoa pods make for interesting home decor conversation pieces. The Cocoa Pod shop currently sells whole dried cocoa pods and open empty dried cocoa pods collected directly from cocoa growers in Ecuador.
Cost: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bittersweetnotes.com/2137-7-gift-ideas-for-the-chocolate-lover</link>
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		<title>Chocolate 101 class at Formaggio Kitchen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Next Thursday, December 12, 2013, from 6:30-8:30pm, I&#8217;ll be teaming up with my favorite local specialty shop, Formaggio Kitchen, to teach a Chocolate 101 class. The tasting line up for this event will explode your mind and knock your socks off. If that sounds good to you, join us! Cost is $55 per person, sign [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bittersweetnotes.com/2132-chocolate-101-class-at-formaggio-kitchen</link>
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		<title>Intentional Deception</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is the result of research conducted over several months in collaboration with chocolate maker Steve DeVries, who has for a number of years now followed the events described below, and whose insights were invaluable to the writing process.
What if I were to tell you that a person could carefully meditate over food, mentally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bittersweetnotes.com/2058-intentional-deception</link>
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		<title>Chocolate class by the numbers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image courtesy of Paul Coles

The spring semester has ended, and so has the adventure that has consumed my thoughts and energies over the past few months. The course African and African American Studies 119x: Chocolate, Culture, and the Politics of Food, or, to use my students&#8217; more efficient moniker, &#8220;Chocolate,&#8221; is now complete. I learned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bittersweetnotes.com/2028-chocolate-class-by-the-numbers</link>
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		<title>New course: Chocolate, Culture, and the Politics of Food</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m teaching a couple of new courses at Harvard University this semester. It seems only fitting to celebrate the two-year anniversary of this blog by sharing a detailed description of one of them, a direct outgrowth of the work that I&#8217;ve been documenting here. The course is entitled African and African American Studies 119x: Chocolate, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bittersweetnotes.com/1984-new-course-chocolate-culture-and-the-politics-of-food</link>
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		<title>Chocolate Books of 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While 2011 was a busy year for publishing on chocolate (see last year&#8217;s summary list here), 2012 ushered in a dizzying array of chocolate-related books from multiple genres. Below, you&#8217;ll find my picks for several of the best, as well as some from my to-read list. 
If there are other recently published books that you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bittersweetnotes.com/1953-chocolate-books-of-2012</link>
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