"Chocolate happens, dear." you've got my full attention. The Drawing I've done cartoons on chocolate from the very beginning of my cartoon career, even before chocolate became acceptable and not shameful! So I had a nice little stash of them before I signed a contract for my book on chocolate, but once I added them up, it was ...

I found this in one of my favorite stores....the 99 Cents Store! Okay, the lineup of boxes in the window looks 20 years old and yucky, but inside, their produce is ok, so I took a chance the cereal would be, too. (Coincidentally, on very cool  open-air bus tour of Los Angeles, I met ...

Severe no for Trader Joe's Chocolate Chunk Cookies. The cookies are dry and the chocolate is not satisfying and tastes cheap. I'm Yankee thrifty, but I'm tempted to throw the rest out! Ingredients look fine (ie, no corn syrup, which I won't eat anymore), and there's a bit of honey, which will usually raise the ...

Heads up, and it's on sale right now at Gelson's! I warn you, this is still very pricey, at an outrageous $4.99 a pint! Normal people shouldn't have to pay this much. But I decided to splurge one evening, and now that I know it's the best, I keep watching for sales, and hope they'll get ...