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Naked Chocolate Cafe in
Philadelphia: Irresistible

By Andrea K. Hammer
For the Bulletin

Photo by R. Kennedy for GPTMC

Father and daughter team Thomas
and Sarah are the forces behind
Walnut Street’s Naked Chocolate
Café, where all of the tempting
confections are made daily in the
open kitchen and chocolate factory
area. Chocolate lovers can take their
treats to go, or they can indulge
right in the boutique’s inviting...

Why naked? Sara Block, co-
owner with father Tom Block, of
the European-style dessert
café Naked Chocolate in
Center City Philadelphia says,
"Because of its purity."

Greeting visitors with a wide
smile as they gape in
astonishment at oversized
chocolate-shaped Eiffel towers,
carriages, and pianos, Sara
patiently asks if she can
answer any questions. ...

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York Festival of Food and Drink 2008

The York Food and Drink Festival will run from Sept. 19 to 28, celebrating the best of regional and
world food in the heart of historic York. The festival makes a great day out with food markets, cookery
workshops, tastings and dinners. Events begin in the early morning and continue through the day with
daily wine tastings, Slow Food workshops, drinks at the new Evening Fountain Café leading on to
festival dinners in the Guildhall and Mansion House Here are some of the festival highlights:

Shopping: Parliament Street and St. Sampson’s Square will be filled for the duration with market stalls
offering food to buy and food to eat in the street. Shop for Yorkshire cheeses, wild boar sausages,
organic vegetables, sticky toffee pudding to eat with Yorkshire clotted cream. From hog roasts to paella
there will be plenty of street food. Restaurants too will take to the street with dishes from Loch Fyne,
Hotel du Vin and the award winning Thai restaurant Sukhothai in Leeds.

Cooking: The region’s top chefs will be out in force: Andrew Pern from the Star at Harome, Paul
Heathcote from the Olive Press in Leeds, Stephanie Moon from Rudding Park, the Festival Director
Michael Hjort from Melton’s. You can also see Rachel Green from Yorkshire TV’s ‘The Flying Cook’
and Rob Green from Green’s of Whitby Besides daily demonstrations in the Cookery Theatre in
Parliament Street, there will also be hands-on cookery workshops for adults and children in the
Guildhall

Eating: Naturally, there will be plenty to eat at the festival. At workshops, market stalls and the Evening
Fountain Café – a marquee in Parliament Street – offering beer, wine, music and food including
Ghanaian curry and a Yorkshire hog roast from Scott’s of York. In the evening there will be festival
dinners: A Victorian dinner in the Mansion House; a curry cooked by York’s own Gurkha regiment; the
York Dinner with food sourced entirely from within the city walls and a sumptuous Yorkshire
Sommelier and St Emilion wine tasting and dinner in the Guildhall. An irreverent YorkshireVision
Sausage Contest promises good fun. Vote for your favourite sausage in a Eurovision-style competition
to find Yorkshire’s best sausage followed later in the week by the YorkshireVision Cheese Contest and
the YorkshireVision Pudding Contest.

Drinking: Among a wide-ranging wine program, there will be a tutored wine tasting every afternoon as
well as the ever-popular Ale Trail. Visit York’s most characterful pubs and claim the T shirt.

For more information, visit www.yorkfoodfestival.com.