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Fran Costigan - Fran's 10th Annual Valentines Spectacular
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Tuesday, February 03, 2026 at 1:00 pm Pacific, 4:00 pm Eastern
Join renowned pastry chef Fran Costigan, Rouxbe’s Director of Vegan Pastry, for her 10th annual Valentine’s Day Spectacular, a live event celebrating indulgent-tasting plant-based de… Read More.
Question:
Any suggestions on a good quality brand of chocolate?
— Betty Norvell
Answer:
There are many good brands of chocolate. Now some you can find even in the supermarket and some online. Vero makes a good chocolate, um, a good dark chocolate as well. What I prefer is to check a list and I put it in the chat so you can see it. The food empowerment project has a chocolate list because there are many fine chocolates today I wanna make sure that my chocolate is made slavery free. And so I check that list. The best thing for you to do is to do some tasting. You'll have to do a little homework. My desserts are generally made with 70 to 72% chocolates. They don't all taste the same by any means. Has to do with how the chocolate was roasted, how the chocolate was prepared, you know, grown. But there's a lot that goes into it. I used to think that all 70% chocolates would say taste the same. They do not at all. So do some tasting and give it a try and let me know what chocolates you end up liking.
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