Well, not really but they like our spicy habanero caramels a lot! Check it out:

http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/eat-and-drink/articles/food-lovers-guide-0310/8/

The Food Lovers’ Guide to Portland

55 tasty destinations for the culinary adventurer in you (Hope you’re hungry!)

By Mike Thelin, Martin Patail, Kaitlyn Evans, and Eva Hagberg
Sweets

“Find-It!
The Find: The habanero caramel (@Alma chocolate)”

Alma is in here! Check out our fancy-pants self!

“Why the World Needs Chocolate”

by Jaqueline Michard

2/14/10

Each year at this time, Americans purchase as many as 58 million pounds of chocolate for Valentine’s Day. A heart-shaped candy is standard, but these days, biting into one doesn’t guarantee you the old-style vanilla cream. Boutique and artisanal chocolatiers are changing the culture of confection as we know it—and making the world better one bonbon at a time…

http://www.parade.com/food/2010/02/14-why-the-world-needs-chocolate.html

Here is a little preview of what we will have in the shop for Valentine’s. Online, too. Starting Feb. 1.

A milagro style flaming heart

Valentine’s Day

Chocolate is for lovers—chocolate lovers, that is. Available February 1st through 14th.

A nice blog shout out by one of the winners of our December customer appreciation drawing:

In early December, a piece in the Oregonian’s A & E section about places in Portland serving fancy hot chocolate drinks caught my eye.  It named a few places I was familiar with already such as Cacao (great chocolate drinks & addictive 50 cent salted caramels by their register – hello, storefront by the Heathman!) and Pix Patisserie.  I noted one I had to yet to try – Alma Chocolate - located in one of my favorite neighborhoods I’ve lived in Portland along the restaurant row of NE 28th and Burnside.   Mmm… fancy hot chocolate on a gray Portland winter day, yes please! More here: http://shesagoodegg.wordpress.com/