I’m an emotional eater. If something’s worth celebrating, we’re going to grab pizza. If it’s going bad, girl, pass me the chocolate. Gotta keep it in check!
Switzerland is a place where they don’t like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
I’m a chocoholic. I need chocolate every day, like one little piece of Droste. I’m not into milk chocolate. But I don’t like it when its super bitter. I need a sweet factor in there. I go for the 75 percent – that’s good enough for me.
Easter is an ancient festival of rebirth, but it’s also an excellent excuse for eating eggs. I really like eggs, of both the chocolate and chicken variety. But the chocolate ones, you must admit, can sustain only a fleeting interest. A sweet, sugary hit – and then it’s gone.
Even a small amount of dark chocolate can be exquisitely satisfying if you meditate on it.
My biggest tip is this… treat bread like chocolate. You wouldn’t have a chocolate bar in the morning and then a double chocolate bar at lunch and then some chocolate before dinner. I was essentially eating a loaf of bread a day. And that doesn’t work for me.
I do everything: I’ll have a green juice, then a melted chocolate ice cream. I stay up very late, I get up very early.
I love cheeseburgers and chocolate – milk, not dark, and hot chocolate with marshmallows in the winter!
I decided on a chocolate business. I love the history of chocolate and making it and the fact that people of any gender, age, and race enjoy it. I found a space in Brooklyn that had not been used in 30 years. Then I talked to an investor who wanted more than 50 percent of the business.
I would be more slender if I didn’t eat a bit of chocolate or a cake now and again, but I’m not one of those crazy women who just eat watercress soup – I need to chomp.
I just have to stay away from craft services. Having that routine allows me to keep absolute focus on the physical shape I want to be in. It’s also important to allow yourself to have treats every once in awhile, so I indulge in dark chocolate. It’s just a balance, for the most part!
My greatest strength is common sense. I’m really a standard brand – like Campbell’s tomato soup or Baker’s chocolate.
I never go to Vancouver without stopping by Thomas Haas’ shop for the best chocolate in North America. A former chef patissier at Daniel, he returned to his hometown and created a top quality brand by sticking to his passion.
I snack on sauteed peanuts, a whole fruit, lots of cheese – especially goat cheese – with multi-grain crackers and dark chocolate. These are my weaknesses. I make it a point to eat every two hours.
I’m a chocolate guy.
My beauty secret is… nothing! I don’t drink too much water. I don’t eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.
We all have our food weaknesses and mine is snacking. I have a sweet tooth and I love chocolate. But I have learned that if you plan ahead you can get round that. I always carry a few chocolate-flavoured protein bars when I’m travelling.
I’m from Switzerland, so I grew up with great chocolate.
I just have to express myself somehow, either through singing, dance or fitness. You get sick of it; you have days where you think you don’t want to do it, but generally after I’ve done something, I feel better. That’s why I do the exercise: to earn my bar of chocolate and cappuccino.
The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse – I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it.
I’ve had a bacon chocolate bar before, and it was really good.
When people started recognising me as a ‘chocolate hero,’ I switched on to action movies and became an action star. I kept reinventing myself. it was a continuous process.
Every meal should end with something sweet. Maybe it’s jelly on toast at breakfast, or a small piece of chocolate at dinner – but it always helps my brain bring a close to the meal.
My favorite splurge is homemade chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream or a Sausage McMuffin with egg or scalloped potatoes or turkey yanked right off the carcass and dipped in gravy or See’s chocolate.
Every Valentine’s Day growing up, my dad would give me a strawberry cream-filled chocolate heart from Russell Stover.
Anything is good if it’s made of chocolate.
You can always write a song about people who are in love, but they’re in love, so they’re happy; they don’t need you. But the people that I try to worry about are the ones who don’t have anyone to give chocolate to, and the girl who doesn’t have flowers coming to her.
We invented the Black Forest trifle. It’s got all the flavours of the Black Forest Gateau but in a trifle, using chocolate custard. You’ve got your kirsch, your cherries, the chocolate custard, the sponge and the cream.
I get a lot more out of the – the touchy feely stuff that happens on reddit. And while I love the snark, and it makes me laugh, I am happy that there is this wonderful balance that plays out on reddit. Or you can get both. I enjoy having my cake and eating it too, especially if it’s not a lie, and chocolate.
I guess if I’m a product, either you’re chocolate, you’re vanilla or you’re butterscotch. You can’t be all three.
I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It’s so rich. You can only have a few bites!
I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields’ Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.
It’s a spinoff of the original Cracker Jack, but it’s Cracker Jack’d. Frito Lay, when they asked me to be a part of it, I tried it, and I really like it. My favorite’s the peanut butter and chocolate.
I believe there is not any big difference between any consumer business, whether it’s a bank or insurance or vodka or chocolate, whatever it is.
I eat a lot of chocolate.
I always degenerate to chocolate and coffee.
To me, it’s not the end of the world if I end up not being with someone. I love romance. I love sex. I love men’s company, but I don’t feel I have to be married. Men are a wonderful part of life, like chocolate. But my life goes on whether they’re there or not.
Usually, about 2 hours before a game, I stuff in a nice peanut butter and jelly with chocolate milk.
I love chocolate!
I love men’s company, but I don’t feel I have to be married. Men are a wonderful part of life, like chocolate. But my life goes on whether they’re there or not.
My mother worked in a chocolate factory, so when I came home from school, I had a piece of baguette with dark chocolate in it. I remember her smelling like chocolate.
I can’t walk by chocolate without eating it.
I was about three when my dad came home with a beautiful tin filled with chocolates. I hadn’t had chocolate before, and I’ll always remember it.
How could anyone not use the humble chestnut at Christmas? It has a great flavour and can be used to make chocolate cake more festive.
The love of a parent is as much nutrition as a chocolate bar.
Ottolenghi sells lots of delicious sweet things, but my daily addiction is their unbelievable dark chocolate salted caramel biscuits. They’re the best things in the world – I go through half a packet every night. I bring them out after pudding at dinner parties.
I thought Willy Wonka was brilliant. He had all kinds of candy. Who doesn’t like chocolate and candies? Everybody wanted a Gobstopper. I just think he’s brilliant.
I don’t really need a personal trainer or watch what I eat. I can’t start the day without a hot chocolate or finish it without a few squares of dark chocolate. It’s good for my mood!
What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in ‘Like Water for Chocolate…’ that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn’t have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life.
I always think, if I were an editor, and I was invited to a show, and I would have to wait for 45 minutes in the dark or in the cold or in the heat, maybe I would like to have a fresh drink or a piece of chocolate.
More and more research shows that chocolate is good for you. It’s a mood elevator. It contains a lot of antioxidants and will keep us younger. It’s good for your heart and acts like aspirin. It keeps your cholesterol low.
It does annoy me when I walk into a room and there are six men over the age of 40 with, let’s just say, a major gut problem, and they’re saying ‘hang on there Dervla, don’t eat your chocolate cake at dessert.’
I eat eight times a day. But it’s what my intake is. I eat all the time, but it’s good stuff. You want to eat that chocolate? You want to eat that dessert? Have that apple or vegetable instead.
Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: deliciousness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.
Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.
People say getting fit is 90% diet and 10% exercise, but that’s bollocks. If you train hard you earn the right to a chocolate bar.
