We Love Chocolate!

Camellia Inn named #1 best chocolate venue in Northern California!

We love chocolate! We love the scent of chocolate - from chocolate kisses to extravagant chocolate desserts. We love its association with sensuality, pleasure and just a tad of guilt for the first two. We love that first dreamy taste of dark heaven and the sweet and earthy smoothness.

Chocolate Covered Recipes

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• Chocolate Covered Wednesdays
• Chocolate Covered Christmas
• Chocolate Covered Valentines Day

We even have unique chocolate gifts you can purchase at our Inn store (either online or at the Inn), and we'd be delighted to arrange a chocolate tour of Wine Country for you when you come to visit. If you would like to learn about new chocolate covered events, tastings, packages and specials at the Camellia Inn, sign-up for our Chocolate Lovers Only e-mail.

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Here are some of of our guest's favorite Chocolate Covered Wednesday recipes.

• Chocolate Soup
• Chocolate Cherry Clafouti
• Chocolate Bundt Cake
• Chocolate & Bacon Baklava
• Chocolate Bread Pudding
• Chocolate-Banana Croissant French Toast
• Chocolate-Amaretti Heartbreakers
• Chocolate Raspberry Smoothie
  

• The Chocolate Life
  The on-line community for chocophiles, and aspiring chocophiles, to explore, learn, and share.
• A Brief History of Chocolate
  This article from Smithsonian.com offers an interesting and informative look at the history of chocolate.
• Chocolate: Drink of the Gods
  The role chocolate played in the Mayan culture.
• Chocolate Alchemy Forum
  The art and science of chocolate community forum.
• Seventypercent Forums
  Fine chocolate discussions and reviews, ingredients, recipes, chocolatiers, and many other topics are all available for discussion at this forum.
• Chocolate: The Psychoactive Food
  Why and how chocolate makes so many people feel so good.
• How Chocolate Works
  About how chocolate is made with photos of cacao trees and cocoa beans.
• All About Chocolate – Buying, Storing, Melting, Tempering and Using
• Dark Chocolate is Healthy Chocolate
  Article from Web MD about the health benefits of dark chocolate.
• Chocolate: A Health Food
  A doctor's informative article on the health benefits of chocolate.
• Improve Your Health and Well-Being with Raw Chocolate
  Find out why raw chocolate is so good for you and even learn how to make some at home.
• Sustainable Table: Chocolate
  Some history and health benefits of chocolate, about fair trade chocolate, and links to healthy chocolate vendors.
• Virtual Chocolate
  Send virtual chocolate postcards, get free chocolate computer wallpaper, and read stories and poems about chocolate here.
• Facts About Chocolate
  Lots and lots of information about chocolate.
• Pairing Chocolate & Wine
  The right wine and chocolate matches are a happy marriage.
• The Chocolate Lovers' Page
  More then 1200 chocolate web sites around the world. Chocolate retailers, suppliers, sellers of gift baskets containing chocolate, chocolate fountain rentals, chocolate recipes, information, fundraising using chocolate, industry associations, personal fan sites, and more.

• In Search of the Heart of Chocolate
• Chocolat
• Like Water for Chocolate
• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder version)
• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Johnny Depp version)
• Lezioni Di Cioccolato (Chocolate Lessons)
• Milton Hershey: The Chocolate King
• Great Chefs: Chocolate Passion
  

• Chocolat
  by Joanne Harris
• Like Water for Chocolate
  by Laura Esquivel
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  by Roald Dahl
• The Great Book of Chocolate
  by David Lebovitz
• The Essence of Chocolate
  by Robert Steinberg and John Scharffenberger
• The Discovery of Chocolate
  by James Runcie
• Chocolate Unwrapped: The Surprising Health Benefits of America's Favorite Passion
  by Rowan Jacobsen
• The Chocolate Bible
  by Christian Teubner
• Chocolate: Cooking with the World's Best Ingredient
  by Christine McFadden & Christine France
• The True History of Chocolate
  by Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
• Chocolate Desserts
  by Pierre Herme
• Candy Freak
  by Steve Almond
• The Chocolate War
  by Robert Cormier
• Bittersweet: Recipes and Tales from a Life in Chocolate
  by Alice Medrich
• The New Taste of Chocolate: A Cultural and Natural History of Cacao with Recipes
  by Maricel Presilla
• Chocolate: A Bittersweet Sage of Dark and Light
  by Mort Rosenblum