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Last Words: Our Favourite Icelandic Easter Egg Proverbs
“Enginn verður óbarinn biskup” We’re pretty sure this one is exclusive to Iceland, and may have something to do with our inclination of killing foreign bishops when they were sent here in the 15th century. “Nobody becomes a Bishop without a beating,” doesn’t seem to ring true in other cultures, nor…
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The First Cacao Fruit Harvested In Iceland And Turned Into Chocolate
The first cocoa plantation in Iceland recently had its first harvest, as reported by RÚV. Cocoa plants have been cultivated at the Horticultural School in Reykir since being planted in 2013. “As far as we know, this is the first cacao fruit…
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How It’s Made: We Scored the Golden Ticket
Iceland is known for many things, but chocolate wasn’t one of them — until recently. These days, in almost every grocery shop in town you’ll see rows of colourful chocolate bars,unlike any you’ve ever come across before. They’re from Omnom, where we…
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Charley And The Chocolate Factory
There are no oompa loompas, golden goose eggs or everlasting gobstoppers in the Omnom Chocolate factory, but when the chocolate tastes this good, it really hardly matters. We’ve come along for one of their popular guided tours, which run every weekday at…
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Seven Easter Eggs Manufactured For Each Icelander
Easter egg production hit an all-time high this year, as Iceland churned out enough of them for every single Icelander to get nearly seven. RÚV reports that all told, about 3 million chocolate candy-filled Easter eggs were produced by Iceland’s major confections…
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Soup Tuesday: Kakósúpa, Icelandic Chocolate Soup
Whoa! It’s the first winter storm here in Iceland. It’s the perfect day to make Icelandic Chocolate Soup: Kakósúpa. Actually, Kakósúpa better translates as “cocoa soup” — and that’s what it is. But we chose to go with delicious dark chocolate, while…
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Have Yourself A Sexy Little Christmas
Chocolate. Oh heavenly Chocolate! The Aztecs—early converts to the cause—believed that it was a gift from the gods, and that it could even bestow special powers upon those who consumed it. We can confirm that this is true. We learned it at…
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All You Need Is Love. And Icelandic Gourmet Chocolate
Imagine an abandoned gas station office. A few things might spring to mind. An empty room with peeling walls, seen only by kids who’ve snuck in to smoke a joint. A dark, dusty old shack you could set a horror movie in.…
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All Out Of Ideas? Grapevine’s Got Your Back!
Get some Yule Lads! Jólabúðin, Laugavegur 4 This lovely Christmas shop on Laugavegur (open year round!) offers a wide range of cool, Iceland-specific Christmas crap your friends back home will totally appreciate (a lot of it’s on the cheap side, too). For…