Chocolate and Summertime

If you don't want your chocolate to look like this - (this is chocolate liquor (lick-koor) - what can you do?

The answer is: don't keep chocolate in the sunshine. You can refrigerate it or keep it in air-conditioning.

Chocolate melts at skin temperature, 98.6°. That's why it melts all over your fingers when you eat it.

If you're going to travel with chocolate, here's a tip. Freeze a refrigerant gel pack, then place it in an insulated lunch type container. That will keep your chocolates cool and delightful!

If you mail-order chocolate in the summer, the company will be sending along a refrigerant pack or two. Smith Organic Chocolates usually packs two in our summer orders.

You should also pay for either USPS Priority Mail or UPS 2-Day Air. The extra cost is worth it - so that your chocolates end up looking like the photo at left, instead of chocolate liquor.

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