Blame it on the phenylethylamine.
That's the chemical that our brain produces when we're falling in love. (Or so we're told.)
Phenylethylamine is also a chemical found in chocolate, which helps make both things -- love and chocolate, that is -- so addictive.
Sweets for your sweet, and all that.
Phenylethylamine is in wine too, but it lacks the flush of chemical-induced affection. The best that researchers can come up with is to blame wine's phenylethylamine for the migraine-ish headaches some people experience the day after.
Alas.
The wine-chocolate-love menage-a-trois, nonetheless, is alive and well. See the examples below for just the start of such events going on around town this week, a few as soon as tomorrow evening.
Because it's never too soon to get some nice phenylethylamines into your system.
WHAT: Dessert & Dessert Wine Pairings with Sweet Solutions and Pastry Chef Judy Mattera
WHERE: Gordon's Fine Wine & Culinary Center, 894 Main Street, Waltham
WHEN: Wednesday, February 10 from 7:30 to 9 p.m.
COST: $45
WHAT: Couples Cooking: Be My Valentine
WHERE: Eurostoves, The Culinary Centre, 45 Enon Street, Commodore Plaza, Beverly
WHEN: Thursday, February 11 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
COST: $150
WHAT: Wine and Chocolate
WHERE: The Wine List, 655 Iyanough Road, Hyannis
WHEN: Friday, February 12 at 5:30 p.m.
COST: $30
WHAT: Wine and Chocolate Class and Dinner
WHERE: The Boston Wine School, 1354 Commonwealth Avenue, Allston
WHEN: Friday, February 12 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
COST: $100
That's the chemical that our brain produces when we're falling in love. (Or so we're told.)
Phenylethylamine is also a chemical found in chocolate, which helps make both things -- love and chocolate, that is -- so addictive.
Sweets for your sweet, and all that.
Phenylethylamine is in wine too, but it lacks the flush of chemical-induced affection. The best that researchers can come up with is to blame wine's phenylethylamine for the migraine-ish headaches some people experience the day after.
Alas.
The wine-chocolate-love menage-a-trois, nonetheless, is alive and well. See the examples below for just the start of such events going on around town this week, a few as soon as tomorrow evening.
Because it's never too soon to get some nice phenylethylamines into your system.
WHAT: Dessert & Dessert Wine Pairings with Sweet Solutions and Pastry Chef Judy Mattera
WHERE: Gordon's Fine Wine & Culinary Center, 894 Main Street, Waltham
WHEN: Wednesday, February 10 from 7:30 to 9 p.m.
COST: $45
WHAT: Couples Cooking: Be My Valentine
WHERE: Eurostoves, The Culinary Centre, 45 Enon Street, Commodore Plaza, Beverly
WHEN: Thursday, February 11 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
COST: $150
WHAT: Wine and Chocolate
WHERE: The Wine List, 655 Iyanough Road, Hyannis
WHEN: Friday, February 12 at 5:30 p.m.
COST: $30
WHAT: Wine and Chocolate Class and Dinner
WHERE: The Boston Wine School, 1354 Commonwealth Avenue, Allston
WHEN: Friday, February 12 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
COST: $100
