Chocolate BonaVita

07/12/2020

A chocolate inspired dessert for Christmas!

Are you thinking about the holidays? A week from now we will be making this dessert as part of our Natale-focused cooking adventure. https://www.esperienza.org/cooking-with-the-seasons-holiday-2020-season

21/04/2015

Thank you to Slow Food Twin Cities for supporting the rainforest preservation in Ecuador!

20/04/2015

Come to our fundraiser and meet the courageous Judith Kimerling!

Environmental and indigenous rights activist, author and attorney Judith Kimerling will receive the Albertson Medal in Sustainable Development. Village Earth, the Fort Collins-based nonprofit, will...

16/04/2015

Come with us to the Rainforest on Earth Day! All the proceeds from our fundraiser will go directly to the children you see in this video...

"My name is Penti Baihua. My people, the Waorani, have lived in the Amazon Rainforest, in the area known as Yasuni, since before the arrival of the European ...

12/04/2015

You do not have to be a millionaire...just come to our fundraiser Chocolate for the Rainforest!

Love wave going to this fabulous man.

Johan Eliasch is also the founder of Cool Earth, a charity that works alongside indigenous villages to halt rainforest destruction: www.coolearth.org

07/04/2015

An article from someone we admire...

We have a saying here: "it's not about the chocolate, it's about the chocolate." We mean that we have a laser focus every single day on making the best chocolate we can with the best beans possible....

04/04/2015

The Ecuadorian rainforest is one of the most biologically diverse spots on earth (and contains some of the world's best cacao). Chocolate Bonavita is hosting this fundraiser on behalf of rainforest preservation in Ecuador. All proceeds from this fundraiser (excluding 'eventbrite' ticket tax) will…

15/03/2015

Adam LeWinter and Jeff Orlowski were in Greenland when they caught a moment on film that no one else in history had ever seen. The filmmakers called the event “Magical, miraculous, horrible, scary thing.” While amazing, the film clip from the “Chasing Ice” documentary is also proof that climate chan…

26/02/2015

We're offering a free wine tasting after Saturday night's screening of Zoran, il mio nipote scemo (Zoran, My Nephew the Idiot)! Board member Fabrizio Bonelli and his wife Elisabetta Re will be conduct the tasting as we get to experience wines from the famous region of Friuli.

http://bit.ly/1ITDP7y

20/02/2015

Once again, the Italian Cultural Center of Minneapolis/St

11/02/2015

Great article in NYT for those of you who would like to make chocolate at home. Enjoy!

A small but growing cohort of people is dedicated to making chocolate at home, a pursuit rooted in the proliferation of American-style, bean-to-bar chocolate.

10/02/2015

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/125-yasuni-national-park/yasuni-photography

Ecuador’s Yasuní Park has it all--treetop orchids, prowling jaguars, nearly 600 species of birds ... and oil craved by developers.

10/02/2015

Dear friends, we are beginning to work on a new project - Wednesday, April 22nd (Earth Day) Fundraiser - to benefit a most precious part of the rainforest: Yasuni, Ecuador. Please respond to this post if you would like to help. All 100% of the proceeds will be donated directly to Yasuni and its people through a grass root organization there. Stay tuned for more details. Saluti,

25/11/2014

18/11/2014

Italian Style Minneapolis Institute of Arts October 26, 2014 - January 4, 2015 See here for more information: http://new.artsmia.org/italian-style

13/11/2014

Donate to support a little island of Italy available to you anytime right here.....

Tomorrow is Give to the Max Day! Please consider donating to the Italian Cultural Center so we can provide even more great classes and events for the Italian lovers of Minnesota.

Donate here: http://bit.ly/1unfEFS

05/11/2014

We will be there having fun...Come see us at the Italian Cultural Center station playing with Italophiles in Italian.

No Gucci? No Prada? No problem!GET FREE admission to “Italian Style: Fashion Since 1945.”TAKE IN a fabulous catwalk show presented by Cult Collective and Mona Williams.ROCK OUT to the indie pop sounds of Strange Relations.VOGUE for the photobooth.DESIGN your own Italian Style–inspired fashions.MASTE…

21/10/2014

Wikipedia is useful...let's support one of the few great services that comes without ads.

Wikipedia is something special. It is like a library or a public park. It is like a temple for the mind. It is a place we can all go to think, to learn, to share our knowledge with others.

18/10/2014

http://new.artsmia.org/event/anna-bonavita-isabella-dalla-ragione-%C7%80-a-taste-of-italy/

What makes for cultural excellence in the Italian world of food, fashion, and film? An inspiring and fertile landscape, rich history, sophisticated art. The century-old traditions of treasuring and cultivating beauty. It’s the art of keeping artisan values alive. Simple gestures such as choosing fru…

14/10/2014

Rare cultivars of Tuscan and Umbrian fruit put on a vibrant autumnal display at this ancient monastery in the High Tiber Valley. Isabella dalla Ragione has spent over 40 years searching convents, family estates and abandoned farms for forgotten species of tree, bringing many back from the brink of extinction. Rebuilt after an earthquake in the 18th century, the chapel of the monastery (seen here in the September issue of The World of Interiors) still functioned as such until the Second World War. Its sacristy contains traces of a 14th-century fresco. The art-school dummy on the armchair gets brought out to make fourteen at the dining table if there are only thirteen guests. Photography: Tim Beddow.

03/10/2014

College of Continuing Education - University of Minnesota.

21/08/2014

http://instagram.com/askinosie...if all companies were like this one...

Direct Trade, bean to bar, award-winning craft chocolate made in the Ozarks. Follow our founder and CEO .

15/08/2014

http://www.cce.umn.edu/courses/CS-0459.html

College of Continuing Education - University of Minnesota.

10/08/2014

“Italian Style: Fashion Since 1945″ is the first major exhibition to examine Italy’s rich, arresting contribution to postwar fashion, showcasing the clothes that turned “Made in Italy” into the mark of style.

09/08/2014

http://foodtank.com/news/2014/08/how-vegetables-can-save-the-world?fb_action_ids=10204395371627802&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_ref=.U-UHsRRnK_I.like

We need to invest more in vegetables to create a food system that nourishes both people and the planet!

01/08/2014

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/cocoa-farmers-trying-chocolate-for-the-first-time-is-a-1612726978?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

You would think that chocolate is universal. Something that is everywhere, that everyone can enjoy. It's not. There are people who have never tried it, even the farmers who break their backs to harvest cocoa beans for a few cents in the Ivory Coast. Watch their faces light up when they eat it for th…

23/07/2014

Delicious Chocolate Beverage Recipe from our friends at Askinosie:

Chilled Sipping Chocolate
Yields 4.5 oz (1 serving)

What You'll Need:
1. 30g Askinosie Sipping Chocolate
2. 20g Hot Water
3. 60g Half & Half
4. Cocktail Shaker

To Make:
1. Put the chocolate morsels into a small volume glass (A Gibraltar or Cortado would work nicely) and add 20g of hot water.
2. Stir the chocolate/water mixture until all chocolate has dissolved and the mixture has a glassy appearance.
3. Slowly whisk in 60g of Half & Half.
4. After the Half & Half is fully integrated, pour the mixture into a cocktail shaker and shake with 1/4 cup of ice.
5. Shake for about 10 seconds, then strain drink into the small volume glass. Serve!

20/07/2014

Chocolate tasting last Friday, accompanied by Prosecco and fantastic women.

18/07/2014

Shawn Askinosie is someone we admire and offen feature in our chocolate tastings/presentations. Please watch this short clip to learn more...

In NewsNation’s “Born in the USA” series, Alex Witt talks to Lawren Askinosie, sales and marketing director of Askinosie Chocolate, about her father’s decision to quit his job as a lawyer and the company’s decision to share their profits with cocoa farmer

13/07/2014

You are invited to join us for a special evening with visionary speaker and writer Charles Eisenstein. In his latest book, “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible,” Eisenstein inspires us to discover how small, individual acts of courage, kindness and self-trust can change our culture’…