Ladies and Gentlemen, This is a Chocolate Chipper.

I’m not much of a kitchen gadget person—I don’t own a garlic press (or want one) and I consider pesto made in a blender to be a defamation of the name—so it’s really no surprise that I didn’t own a chocolate chipper, but the real reason for it is that until I received one as [...]

I have nothing against chocolate…

but when I see a story like the one in the New York Times travel section on Sunday—a woman goes on a day-long bike tour to visit eight chocolate shops—I can’t help but think that editors are just starved for ideas. Or that they are so confused about food and how to cover it that [...]