Image courtesy of Lucas Seipp-Williams of Baltimore Health Coach. He will lead a raw chocolate class in Baltimore on March 27th.
In this week’s Food News, a raw chocolate class in Maryland on March 27th and Cleveland’s new food project in the Galleria mall:
Raw Chocolate: You’ve seen how dark chocolate has taken over our candy choices – in last night’s The Mentalist, Simon Baker’s character, Patrick Jane, said he liked “what we’re doing with chocolate these days,” i.e. using dark chocolate in regular candy bars – so raw chocolate just might be the next logical evolution in our chocolate tastes. Raw chocolate bars combine unroasted chocolate with gentle ingredients like agave; thus, raw chocolate is a more nutritious, socially-conscious way to enjoy sweets. If you live in Maryland, you can learn all about this natural sweet (and taste 8 chocolate flavors!) at Baltimore Health Coach’s raw chocolate class in Baltimore at the Ruscombe Mansion on March 27th.
A Mall’s New Farm Stand: Cleveland may have given us the best example of how to deal with vacant retail space in malls – Fast Company says they’ve started the Gardens Under Glass project to sell fruits and vegetables in the empty areas of their Galleria mall. I don’t go to malls often enough to know how much vacant retail space we have in Maryland, but either way, this is a great way to make fresh food more accessible. And wouldn’t it be great to shop for clothes, and then fresh fruit and vegetables all at once? (Thanks to 1000FriendsofMD for tweeting about this project!)
