Chocolate on the go: The Chocoholic Traveler (App review) ? The ...

Having spent much of the summer with an athletic, Olympic theme to our site, it?s time for us to switch to a less exhausting topic for a few weeks, and return to a TDN favorite: food.

Or, more specifically, traveling across or around the world to eat certain foods. What kind of foods, of course, depends on the individual. It?s literally a matter of personal taste.

For example, while I would happily pass?on trekking across Cambodia to sample some?deep-fried tarantula, I could be persuaded to travel to Sweden ? although not for the?Surstr?mming. As a self-confessed chocoholic, I?d need a sweeter temptation than fermented Baltic herring. October?s Stockholm Chocolate Fest in the National Museum of Cultural History, on the other hand ? ?a weekend of chocolate demonstrations, tasting, and (of course) purchasing ? would entice me.

An app for the hopeless chocoholic

One woman who might agree with me is?Kay Harwell Fernandez. Journalist Kay writes about travel as it relates to food and drink ? particularly chocolate. Her passion for world chocolate is such that she has created an app for iPad/iPhone, called Chocoholic Traveler.

Be warned: this is an app for even the most dedicated of chocoholics, and one which will considerably lengthen their bucket lists.

Fancy a pilgrimage to Joanne Harris?s?Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, the fictional French town in Chocolat? For $18,200 for a party of four, you can take a barge cruise through the French Burgundy Canal and, along the way, have lunch in Flavigny, where the movie of Harris?s Chocolat was filmed.

Perhaps you prefer a more hands-on approach. From the app, I discovered several chocolate cooking classes, ranging from a $10 class at Hershey Story Museum, to a $900 four-day summer camp at Burdick?s in New Hampshire.

Need to crush the chocolate guilt? Try a chocolate walking tour of London?s Mayfair and Chelsea. The three-hour walk will go some way to silencing the voice of your conscience as you drink hot chocolate and taste different varieties of chocolates, including the Queen?s favorite. The tour, by the way, starts off with a chocolate cocktail. Of course.

Verdict

If you?re looking for an app that identifies individual chocolate shops, this isn?t it. This is more accurately an act of worship for the cacao bean. In the same way an app for Napa Valley wine tours wouldn?t list every local liquor store, this doesn?t list every Main Street confectionery store. Kay Harwell Fernandez is, however, continually updating her app with new global chocolate events. One nice touch is the comments page ? users can see others? suggestions for future updates.

Check out Chocoholic Traveler on iTunes here, and

STAY TUNED for Tuesday?s post: helpful advice on the subject strange food obsessions, from our resident agony aunt, Mary-Sue Wallace.

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