Tag page - Le Choux Colat

I 've always associated chocolate with celebrations. Birthdays, Christmas, Valentine 's Day—it 's almost always there. But spending an evening with Chef Ely Salar reminded me that before chocolate becomes dessert, it first begins as cacao, grown by Filipino farmers whose work...

When Chef Ely Salar named his first brick-and-mortar outlet the Pâtisserie Le Choux-Colat, it was a smart play on words and a marrying of two of his culinary loves—the choux dough pastries he’s known for, and for the chocolate flavors that often form the base of, or adorn, his pastry...