{"id":217,"date":"2009-06-19T11:08:58","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T17:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2009-06-19T11:12:19","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T17:12:19","slug":"kerstin-on-the-cover-of-24hrs-edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"Kerstin on the cover of 24hrs Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/kerstinbacon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-218\" title=\"Kerstin making chocolate covered bacon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/kerstinbacon-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" style=\"margin: 10px 10px 0px 0px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/kerstinbacon-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/kerstinbacon.jpg 1031w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><em>Kerstin and our Chocolate Covered Bacon were featured on the cover of <a title=\"24hrs edmonton\" href=\"http:\/\/eedition.edmonton.24hrs.ca\/epaper\/viewer.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">24hrs Edmonton <\/a>today. Here is the text of <a title=\"Article\" href=\"\/img\/24Hrs.Pig.outsmall.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the article<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"art-imagetext\">BREAKFAST TREAT?: Chocolatier Kerstin Roos displays chocolate-covered bacon at The Cocoa Room By Kerstin\u2019s Chocolates store, 10139 112 St., Thursday morning.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But for a limited time, an unexpected yet unmistakable perfume is mingling with the rich cocoa scent.<\/p>\n<p>For Father\u2019s Day, The Cocoa Room by Kerstin\u2019s Chocolates has concocted a sweet and salty treat: Bacon enrobed in chocolate.<\/p>\n<p>Chocolatier Kerstin Roos fries organic bacon from a Warburg farm and dips the crispy strips in Venezuelan chocolate \u2014 with a sprinkle of cocoa from Madagascar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the only smell that\u2019s better than chocolate is bacon and we\u2019ve combined them,\u201d said Roos at her 10139 112 St. shop on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The choco-bacon, at $18 per 100 grams, is available until Saturday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"testArtCol_b\" class=\"art-layout-b\">\n<p>A customer who tried a strip Thursday said she enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was good. It\u2019s way different between the salty and the sweetness,\u201d said Barb Walline, who stopped in during a break from work.<\/p>\n<p>Since the shop opened last year, business has been rolling along smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>Even the band Coldplay was to sample some of Roos\u2019 wares. She selected some of her finest chocolates for delivery to the band before its Rexall Place concert Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Roos said Coldplay orders chocolate from a local chocolatier in each city they play.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the shop\u2019s tiny truffles and nicely packaged bars are made in-house and some have surprising ingredients, such as local hemp seeds, chili peppers and candied lemon.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kristy Brownlee, 24 HOURS<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerstin and our Chocolate Covered Bacon were featured on the cover of 24hrs Edmonton today. Here is the text of the article: BREAKFAST TREAT?: Chocolatier Kerstin Roos displays chocolate-covered bacon at The Cocoa Room By Kerstin\u2019s Chocolates store, 10139 112 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/?p=217\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-coverage","tag-bacon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerstinschocolates.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}