Attention, calling all Colombian chocolate makers and chocolatiers. Chocolate Awards has just opened its first Cacao Country Support Competition in Colombia #chocolateawardscolombia. This is the 1.er Concurso de Chocolate de Origen Colombiano.

🇨🇴 ATENCIÓN! La inscripción al 1.er Concurso Nacional de Chocolate de Origen Colombiano ha sido extendida: ⏳Inscripción extendida hasta el 5 de noviembre, 2021. ⏳Se recibirán muestras hasta el 9 de noviembre de 2021. internationalchocolateawards.com/es/competition…

Read #DavidRemnick’s incise story about the brave Russian journalist #YevgeniaAlbats who dares to report the truth about Putin and #UkraineWar. #TheNewYorker : “A Russian Journalist Who Stayed Behind,” (March 10, 2022).

A ray of hope and defiance. A new heroine is born and will pay the price. Let’s remember her name: Marina Ovsyannikova. Let’s repeat her name to memorize it, Marina Ovsyannikova. She defied Russia’s controlled narrative about Ukraine while millions watched.

In Kyiv, WCK is working with more than 30 restaurants that continue to provide daily fresh meals to hospitals, shelters & orphanages. Today, 100 Years Back to the Future prepared plates of corn porridge with chicken, cheese, and tomato. #ChefsForUkraine

Don’t forget the names in red and watch those names in yellow. Cowards. Irresponsible. Indefensible.

The 2022 Art of Eating Prize for best food book of the year goes to Bryant Terry for Black Food: Stories, Art & Recipes from Across the African Diaspora! Congratulations! Ten Speed Press/@PenguinRandom. artofeating.com/prize/winner/

Thank you to our incredible 2022 Art of Eating Prize judges Frank Stitt (@frankstitt), Sara Jenkins (Sara Jenkins), Edward Lee (Chef Edward Lee), Maricel Presilla (Maricel Presilla), Todd Richards (Todd Richards), Kayla Stewart (Kayla Stewart)

Congratulations & thanks to ⁦@bryantterry⁩ and ⁦Ten Speed Press⁩ for the gift of #BlackFood and to The ⁦The Art of Eating⁩ for recognizing its importance. The past and the present of the #AfricanDiaspora coming together to build a better future instagram.com/tv/CdbuxRzFJAa…

A whiff of welcome normalcy in NY. Txikito my favorite Basque restaurant, is back with chef alexandra raij delighting diners as before. If you loved it, come back. If you don’t know it yet, make a reservation and discover it. Anya von Bremzen Peter Kaminsky

Proud to be a part of the CIA’s stellar Advisory Committee for the Worlds of Flavor Africa and its Diaspora conference starting next week at COPIA. Thanks Jessica Harris Thérèse Nelson and our dedicated team for creating such inspiring program.

Argentina!!!!!!! God knows they need good news.

One of our largest competitions, gathering bean-to-bar chocolate makers and craft chocolatiers from North/Central/South America is now OPEN to enter. Send your samples from 25 April until 12 May. enter.chocolateawards.com

Thank you to our exceptional 2023 Art of Eating Prize judges -- as we always say, they are hardest working people in the judging business! 😍 Hugh Acheson, Jordan Mackay, Ligaya Mishan, @EmilyRNunn, Maricel Presilla, bill st john, and last year's winner @bryantterry

Send your samples now to our Americas Bean-to-Bar and Craft Chocolatier Competition! Enter by 10 May, samples required by 12 May. More details: enter.chocolateawards.com

The winner of The Art of Eating 2023 food book competition was announced today. An Afro-American “Cucharamama,” the late Miss Emily Megget, a Gullah Geechee matriarch, is the deserving winner. I know she is smiling from Heaven. The Art of Eating

Starting today, I am planning to try and recommend one book every day for the month of June—let’s see how it goes! Peppers of the Americas is a wonderful, inspiring look at the peppers that are native to the Western Hemisphere. Maricel Presilla

After the 1815 eruption of Mt Tambora, sunsets of hallucinogenic colors were captured by painters like Turner in the UK. No such thing today as a mantle the white Canadian wood smoke descended down the Hudson obscuring the shiny city across the water.

Explorers at heart will always test limits, with money or not. Rather than criticize them for taking a known risk, let’s pray for their rescue. The world will not be a better place without them. #Titansubmersible #Titan

El 1er. Concurso Nacional de Chocolate Mexicano ya está en línea. Buen momento para México y el International Chocolate Awards. Gracias. Chocolate Awards #festivaldelchocolate #Tabasco instagram.com/p/Cwn6cC5tQtC/…