Note: This post contains affiliate links. Read our disclosure and disclaimer here. The roses-and-chocolate version of Valentine’s Day is not one that I ever was able to fully participate in. Receiving these gifts from your parents, sister, or elementary school classmates is nice, but itread more

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about chocolate. There’s one person I can blame for this: a very sweet person who’s opened my eyes (and palate) to the incredibly vast and nuanced world of chocolate flavors, origins, and making techniques. That on top of every storeread more