10 Min Tour on the TN Whiskey Trail - Corsair Distillery
Leaf Enthusiast takes you on a quick tour of the Corsair Distillery, located in Nashville, part of the Tennessee Whiskey Trail.
Dude, Sweet Chocolate
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Dude, Sweet Chocolate
408 West Eighth Street
Dallas, Texas 75208
Telephone 214.943.5943
At Dude, Sweet Chocolate we concoct, manufacture, distribute, and retail dark chocolate inspired creations as our core business. Our product line is very fluid and seasonal, but usually contains fudges, truffles, toffees, nuts, artisan chocolates, and basically anything else our chef decides to improve by introducing it to cacao.
There are currently two Dude, Sweet Chocolate locations where we retail the chocolate directly, and we maintain sales relationships with dozens of both local and out of state resellers, ranging from corner stores to Whole Foods and winery and distillery operations. Our chef's extensive and impressive pastry background also allows us to spread our ideas and influence through consulting, event, and related projects. In the last year, we have taken the lead with several national restaurant chains (including P.F. Chang's) in redesigning their dessert offerings.
Dude, Sweet Chocolate traces its roots to a dive bar just south of downtown Dallas, Lee Harvey's, where co-founders Chef Katherine Clapner and Redding May (CFO) were regulars. Heading towards the holidays in 2008, he partnered with her to send unique artisan chocolates as client gifts while working with Merrill Lynch. After that, she ran with the idea -- pushing her chocolate creations in summer heat at farmers markets and the like. Mid-year 2009, she brought up the idea of opening a store, and the first small kitchen/store was built-out and opened in early December that year.
At Dude, Sweet Chocolate we strive to differentiate ourselves by maintaining intense focus on the quality of the culinary product itself, and not getting lost in the rest of the product design process. You will not find a single bow, ribbon, or shiny box in our stores. Kraft paper packaging, brown labeling, and simple, clean design shift attention to the chocolate, which stands on its own.
Another differentiating factor is the spectrum of unique flavor profiles we cover -- savory to sweet, and everything in between. As an example, a couple of our best sellers are our Albatross blue cheese and sea salt fudge, and our Fungus Amongus porcini and pumpkin seed toffee. These kinds of collaborations, done well, are the products of incredible culinary experience and vision -- Katherine somehow makes it look easy.
Voted Best Chocolatier three years running! D Magazine
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Dude, Sweet Chocolate
1925 Greenville Avenue
Dallas, Texas 75243
Telephone 469.334.0125
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Postcard From the Past Mobilizes a Columbia Historic Church to Restoration
“We’re excited to be a part of history today,” said Jane George Holms.
Holms is a member of Ebenezer Lutheran Church, which saw an exciting addition of two new cupolas to it’s storied chapel on Monday, February 6. Construction crews readied cranes to hoist the cupolas into the Columbia skyline as members of the community and the congregation gathered to watch from the sidewalks below. The group broke into a joyous rendering of the hymn, “Lift High the Cross”, as the cupolas were gently placed atop the chapel.
As the first Lutheran congregation in Columbia, founded by fourteen members in 1830, Ebenezer Lutheran and its chapel have stood as a backdrop to the city’s history time and time again.
A fire destroyed the first structure during the Civil War. Northern Lutherans provided funds to rebuild, and G.T. Berg designed the new brick church, erected in 1870. Berg was a German immigrant, brought by John Niernsee to assist in the design for the South Carolina State House. He remained a member of Ebenezer Lutheran for the rest of his life, and composed music that is still used in services today.
The congregation eventually outgrew the Old Church in 1931 when the new Gothic Church was built, but it would remain an important part of Ebenezer Lutheran. In the late 1940s it served as a Fellowship Hall, in the 1960s the Old Church was a coffee house for young adult members and in the 1970s and 1980s it was used as a senior citizens center. In 1993 the Old Church was rededicated as a chapel, and it now serves as a more intimate setting for worship activities and other activities.
It was not until a postcard of the original Ebenezer Lutheran Church was discovered in the Ebenezer Archives, that it was understood by the church’s current generation, that G.T. Berg’s original design featured two cupolas atop each tower above the Palladian windows of the chapel. Deterioration over time led to the removal of the cupolas, though there are no records in the archives about when they were removed. The Richland County Conservation Commission awarded Ebenezer Lutheran a grant to restore the cupolas that were an important part of this historically and culturally significant structure.