Upcoming Chocolate Holidays

Chocolate Healing!

Quote of the Quarter

National Chocolate Milkshake Day - September 12th

Just 1 ounce of a very special chocolate packs more than twice the healthy antioxidant punch of red wine!

"Cocoa is rich in antioxdant flavonoids called flavonols,which include procyanidins, epicatechins, and catechins," explains Harold Schmitz, PhD.  Studies have shown that people with high blood levels of flavonoids have lower risk of heart disease, lung cancer, prostate cancer, asthma, and type 2 diabetes.

Several studies in animals and humans have shown the heart-healthy effects of this "super-chocolate's" antioxidants.  One of these studies found that people who ate a diet rich in cocoa powder and dark chocolate had lower oxidation levels of bad LDL cholesterol, higher blood antioxidant levels,and 4% higher levelsof good HDL cholesterol.

Source:  Excerpt from Prevention - Healing with Chocolate.

Upcoming Holidays

Always reasons and seasons to celebrate; pick your favorites.

Labor Day - September 5th

Grandparents Day - September 12th

National Children's Day - October 9th

Columbus Day - October 10th

Navy Day - October 13th

Sweetest Day - October 15th

Bosses' Day - October 16th

Mother-in-Law's Day - October 23rd

Halloween - Octobe 31st

Marine Corps Day - November 8th

Veteran's Day - November 10th

Thanksgiving Day - November 24th

Hanukkah - Decembe 25, 2005 (at sunset) through January 1, 2006

Christmas Eve - December 24th

Christmas Day - December 25th

Kwanzaa - December 26, 2005 - January 1, 2006

New Year's Eve - December 31st

"At the top of my food pyramid sits CHOCOLATE."

by Nancy L. Wood, 2005

"Chocolate" in Other Languages

National  White Chocolate Pudding Day -  September 22nd

Norwegian - sjokolade

Polish- czekolada

National Chocolate Day - October 28th

Potugese - chocolate

Romanian - ciocolatã

National Chocolate-Covered Anything Day - December 16th   

Russian - shokolad

From the Mailbox

Chocolate Fact

May 6, 2005

Dear A Chocolate Oasis, Thanks for helping us get this order here in the time frame you had. I am very pleased with the baskets and would like to order more in the near future.  I will call soon.  Your baskets are beautiful by the way.

Thanks,

Charlie & Dawn

at Chocolate Charlie's

A Chocolate Oasis of Gifts had the privilege of sharing the opening of Chocolate Charlie's, Longview, Texas, with a dozen of our baskets in their retail store.  Check out Chocolate Charlie's under affiliates.

Win this Beautiful Basket!

"A TRUE CHOCOLATE LOVERS CONFESSION"

Submit a humorous story of when you first realized you were a chocoholic!  For more more information check out  Contest Details.

Submit to:  Contest2005@achocolateoasis.com

"Doctor's report that people who eat chocolate three times a month could add a year to their lives.  Chocolate is filled with ANTIOXIDANTS, in fact 3 ounces of chocolate has 410 mg."  

From Woman's World magazine, March 30, 1999.

Chocolate Glossary

Cocoa Butter:  The vegetable fat contained in a cocoa bean.  It is a yellowish-white fat.  It is removed from chocolate liquid by using high pressure.

Featured Favorite Chocolate Treasure

  Tortuga Rum Cake

Delicious, authentic rum cakes - a gourmet treat.  A Chocolate Oasis of Gifts proudly includes the original Tortuga Caribbean Chocolate Rum Cake in many of its gift selections.  It is moist and delicious from a family-owned business known world-wide for their Tortuga Caribbean Rum Cakes -- the #1 export of the Cayman Islands.

Chocolate Spa Anyone!  The Chocolate-Raspberry Pedicure has you soak your tootsies in a fizzy concoction made with the essences of those taste treats (bring some truffles to savor, because the soak supplies aroma, not flavor).  

The Spa at the Fairmont, Vancouver International Airport; and Absolute Spa at the Century, Vancouver, B.C.  (March 2002)