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The Fundamentals of Tempering by Hand

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

Shine, smoothness and snap are not the usual attributes of chocolates; you obtain these through tempering. Though conching refines chocolate particles to the tiniest grain, tempering will turn chocolates velvety fine. Tempering also keeps away the blooma state where chocolates become gritty and large white crystals rise and dot the surface of chocolates making […]

Barriers

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

There are many times I set up
barriers and walls,
invisible unless you come too close,
And then you hit them.
You wonder what happened.
You didn’t know,
I can’t let you in.
I’ve lost the key to open the doors
in the walls, and
I don’t know how
To take them down.
Fran Watson
Copyright © 2003

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Poem: UN, Incarceration

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Advance: The author has had one political thorn in his side and this is it, the corruption of at all three branches of the United Nations; worldwide. As he has stated: “The UN is screwing the whole world royal with US Dollars for it mattress, and waiting or the US Taxpayer to bend over […]