Harlem Condo Life had the pleasure of joining the owner of Chocolàt, Leon Ellis and their new Executive Chef, Joseph Guitierrez, along with fellow bloggers for a VIP Tasting at Chocolàt Restaurant Lounge in Harlem this week.
Joseph Guitierrez previous talents include The Coffee Shop, where he worked as Executive Sous Chef, a stint as Chef de Cuisine at Luna Park and Rockin' River Ranch in Sedona, Arizona where he opened a bed and breakfast. Chef Joseph and Leon Ellis were kind enough to allow us to sample items from the new menu.
If you are not already familiar with Chocolàt they are located on Harlem Restaurant Row in a large windowed corner space nicely situated on Frederick Douglass Boulevard and 120th Street. The warm mocha and creme colored dining room has a very loft-like airy feel both spacious and inviting. This 120-seat room is a great space for group get-togethers as it can easily accommodate large parties. In addition they have a cool private dining (VIP room) which is available for reservation upon request.
Leon Ellis who opened his first business MOCA Lounge in 2003, has proven his staying power as he now owns three successful businesses in Harlem all of which happen to be located on FDB. Chocolat Restaurant Lounge, which I would describe as an upscale dining destination has had many celebrities visit such as Tina Fey, Sherri Shepherd, Victor Cruz, Mike Tyson, Danny Glover and Angela Bassett just to name a few.
It was a very hot and humid night this past Tuesday in Harlem and I was immediately pleased with the cool air conditioned room and the inviting bar. The new Chef introduced himself to everyone and then proceeded to bring out the new items. Those of us dining for this event all had our specific favorites. First I'd like to mention that everything was delicious and the group of us dining all seemed pleasantly surprised with the items. One of the entrees, The Southern Crispy Yard Bird was a favorite with the group. However, my favorite chicken dish was the Jerk Chicken with Rice and Peas and Sweet Plantains. VERY spicy, I loved it.
Another stand out entree for me was the Grilled Scottish Salmon with Sautéed Kale and Mango Coulis. Delicious, healthy, lite and refreshing for a warm summer night. All of the appetizers were tasty. My favorites were the Shrimp and Watermelon Salad and the Short Rib Empanadas. The shrimp with the crumbled goat cheese, basil and lemon vinaigrette over the watermelon really did it for me. A nice summery blend of flavors. As a meat lover I could have had several of the empanadas but restrained to just having one. Flavorful and well executed. The desserts we sampled were the Jamaican Black Cake a la Mode and Pastellas with Guava and Queso. Depending on what you are in the mood for I would recommend either one. But I thought that the Pastellas with Guava and Queso served warm were amazing. The perfectly baked pastry with the warmed quava filling is a new favorite of mine. A fellow diner said that the Jamaican Black Cake was her favorite item of the night. I suggest that you visit Chocolàt and decide for yourself.
Please read more on Joseph Gutierrez (Executive Chef) below and view the new menu at Chocolàt in Harlem.
Chocolàt offers Brunch, Lunch and Dinner Service Monday through Sunday.
Dessert – Pastellas with Guava and Queso (served warm) Delicious!


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WSGI config for wbg project.

It exposes the WSGI callable as a module-level variable named ``application``.

For more information on this file, see
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"""
import json
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from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application

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Minimally invasive surgery allows your surgeon to use techniques that limit the size and number of cuts, or incisions, that they need to make. It's typically considered safer than open surgery. You'll usually recover more quickly, spend less time in the hospital, and feel more comfortable while you heal.
In traditional open surgery, your surgeon makes one large cut to see the part of your body that they're operating on. In minimally invasive surgery, your surgeon uses small tools, cameras, and lights that fit through several tiny cuts in your skin. This allows your surgeon to perform surgery without opening a lot of skin and muscle.
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Use general anesthesia to keep you asleep throughout the surgery.
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The Complete Talking Heads
The classic BBC Radio 4 monologues plus A Woman of No Importance
By: Alan Bennett
Narrated by: Alan Bennett, Patricia Routledge
The complete audio collection of Alan Bennett's celebrated monologues, published together for the first time and performed by some of Britain's best actors. The Talking Heads monologues are widely regarded as one of Alan Bennett's finest dramatic achievements. First broadcast on BBC TV and BBC Radio 4 in the 1980s and 1990s, they won a host of awards and huge popular acclaim, and remain among his most admired works today.
First rate stuff
Dear Philip, Dear Kingsley
The Letters of Phillip Larkin & Kingsley Amis
By: Philip Larkin
Narrated by: Alan Bennett, Robert Hardy
A meeting at Oxford University during World War II signalled the beginning of a lifelong friendship between two outstanding contributors to 20th century English literature: Philip Larkin, poet, and Kingsley Amis, the prolific novelist. Selected from correspondence written between 1943 and 1985, these letters offer an entertaining and illuminating insight into the prejudices, exasperations and in-jokes of two literary greats. A linking commentary complements the writers' own words.
The Complete BBC collection
By: A. A. Milne
Narrated by: Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett reads A. A. Milne's much-loved stories about a small bear and his friends. The collection includes Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner and A Party for Pooh. What is the connection between a bear of very little brain and a honey pot? Usually it's the very sticky paw of Winnie-the-Pooh, as he takes a break between adventures for a little something. In these stories, Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place, Eeyore loses a tail and Piglet meets a Heffalump.
Six Poets
Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology
Alan Bennett's selection of English verse by his favourite poets: Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, and Philip Larkin is accompanied by his own enlivening commentary and was recorded before a live audience. In this personal anthology, Alan Bennett has chosen more than seventy poems by six well-loved poets, discussing the writers and their verse in his customary conversational style through anecdote, shrewd appraisal and spare but telling biographical detail.
The inimitable Alan Bennett
By: Kenneth Grahame, Alan Bennett - adaptation
Narrated by: Alan Bennett, Richard Briers, Adrian Scarborough, and others
One spring morning, Mole surfaces into the sunlight and warm grass of a great meadow. Rambling busily along the hedgerows, he comes to the edge of a river. Mole is entranced. Here on the river bank he meets the Water Rat. He meets Ratty's friends: Badger who lives in the Wild Wood and the incorrigible Toad of Toad Hall. A timeless tale of waterside Britain that has been loved by generations of children and acclaimed as a classic. Many of the original cast from Alan Bennett's acclaimed National Theatre production appear in this dramatization for BBC Radio 4.
Narrated by: Alan Bennett, Richard Briers, Adrian Scarborough, Terence Rigby
Alan Bennett: Stories
Read by Alan Bennett
A unique collection of eight Alan Bennett stories, read by the author. Alan Bennett is one of Britain's best-loved authors and an acclaimed storyteller. This exclusive compilation includes eight of his best tales, collected together for the first time. Here is his celebrated, iconic memoir 'The Lady in the Van'; as well as two fascinating autobiographical accounts of his family and childhood.
A National Treasure
By David on 23-08-2020
Alan Bennett Reads Childhood Classics
The Wind in the Willows; Alice in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner
By: Kenneth Graeme, Lewis Carroll, A A Milne
> The Wind in the Willows is the classic story featuring Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad (of Toad Hall). In Alice in Wonderland, when Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole, she embarks on a series of adventures with some of the most weird and wonderful characters ever encountered. In Through the Looking Glass, Alice sees another world in the looking glass and wishes she could go there.
By: Kenneth Grahame
When the Water Rat invites the unassuming Mole to spend his first day ever in a boat on the river, and wise Badger comes along for the ride as well, so begins a marvellous season of adventure for the three friends. Mr Toad (he of Toad Hall) completes a happy foursome, but his tendency to get into hot water leads him into some rather hair-raising scrapes of his own.
One of the buest books!!!
Alan Bennett: Doctor Dolittle Stories
Classic Readings from the BBC Archive
By: Hugh Lofting
Alan Bennett reads these three enchanting Doctor Dolittle stories. Doctor Dolittle has an extraordinary talent - he can talk to the animals! Taught by his parrot, Polynesia, he is soon able to chat to every kind of creature - and his skill leads him into all sorts of adventures.
The Real Dr Dolittle
By Kathy Ford on 08-02-2020
Alan Bennett: Keeping On Keeping On
Diaries 2005-2014
Alan Bennett narrates the latest installment of his diaries, as heard on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week. Following on from Alan Bennett's best-selling, award-winning prose collections Writing Home and Untold Stories, Keeping On Keeping On is a third anthology featuring his unique observations, recollections and reminiscences. At its heart is his latest published collection of diaries.
Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
What is the connection between a Bear of Very Little Brain and a Honey Pot? Usually it's the very sticky paw of Winnie the Pooh, as he a takes a break between adventures for 'a little something. In these 5 stories, taken from the book Winnie-the-Pooh, Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place, Eeyore loses a tail, Piglet meets a Heffalump, Eeyore has a birthday and gets two presents, and an expedition is mounted to the North Pole!
Untold Stories, Part 2: The Diaries
Untold Stories, Alan Bennett's first major collection of prose since his best-selling Writing Home, brings together the finest and funniest of his writing over the last 10 years.
A BBC Radio 4 adaptation
Narrated by: Alan Bennett, full cast, Maggie Smith
Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
Maggie Smith stars in this BBC radio adaptation of Alan Bennett's highly acclaimed autobiographical stage play. An eccentric old lady moves into a quiet street in Camden Town. There she remains, installed in her van in glorious self-sufficiency, until the council instructs her to move on. Then a kind homeowner invites her to move her van into his garden - where she stays for the next 15 years.
Untold Stories, Part 1: Stories
Smut: Two Unseemly Stories: The Greening of Mrs Donaldson & The Shielding of Mrs Forbes
Two unexpected tales written and read by the best-selling author of The Uncommon Reader, Untold Stories and The History Boys."The Greening of Mrs Donaldson" - Mrs Donaldson is a conventional middle-class woman beached on the shores of widowhood after a marriage that had been much like many others: happy to begin with, then satisfactory and finally dull. But when she decides to take in two lodgers, her mundane life becomes much more stimulating…
Following on from the phenomenal success of Writing Home, Alan Bennett reminisces about his early years, from his schooldays to undergraduate life at Oxford University.
The House at Pooh Corner
In these 5 stories, taken from the book The House at Pooh Corner, Pooh and Piglet build a house for Eeyore, Tigger comes to the Forest and has breakfast, Piglet nearly meets the Heffalump again, Pooh invents a new game and Owl moves house. As usual they are accompanied by Kanga, Roo, Rabbit and Owl - to say nothing of Pooh's very clever young human friend, Christopher Robin.
THE best narration!
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By: Linda Bridey
Narrated by: Alan Taylor, J. Scott Bennett
Books 22-23 in the series that critics describe as "a wonderful blend of hope, humor, passion, romance, suspense, forgiveness and the stories make you feel like you are actually there!" In Book 22, Westward Sight: When Frankie Scorrano and D. J. Samuels meet, romance blossoms. But when a terrible illness strikes, leaving behind complications, will their love survive, or will it succumb to bitterness and despair?
Untold Stories Part 4: A Common Assault
A Common Assault describes an incident in Italy when he was mugged, and found himself trying to give a statement to the police in bad Italian. The History Boys harks back once more to Bennett's time at school, and shows how the raw material of experience was eventually transformed into the highly-acclaimed stage play The History Boys. Arise, Sir..., finishes on a light-hearted note, in which Bennett muses on the Honours List in typically iconoclastic mode.
Lady in the Van
The humorous and moving tale of Miss Shepherd, an eccentric old lady who, by a bizarre series of twists and turns, lived in the author's garden for many years. Alan Bennett reads his own acclaimed work, recently adapted as a West End smash hit starring Maggie Smith as the eccentric old lady.
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Food policy advisor Funda Ayhan explains what the new hellim / halloumi PDO means for Turkish Cypriot producers
EUHellimHellim/Halloumi PDOTurkish Cypriot
A fortnight ago, the European Commission adopted a package of measures to protect an important part of Cypriot heritage – its cheese.
Called 'hellim' in Turkish, and 'halloumi' in Greek, this renowned Cypriot cheese was registered as a protected designation of origin (PDO), essentially banning the misuse of its name by imitation products across the European Union.
A PDO brings significant economic and cultural benefits to bona fide producers and the territory the produce is made in.
For Turkish Cypriot hellim producers, the opportunity is even more significant as it will be the first time they can sell their cheese to European markets since the island entered the EU in May 2004.
The Greek Cypriot-imposed embargoes led to the EU freezing out the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) when the island became a full member seventeen years ago. The acquis Communautaire (EU laws) along with Direct Trade Regulation between North Cyprus and the EU was suspended, replaced by the Green Line Regulation (GLR).
Instead of having free movement goods – one of the fundamental pillars of the EU – the GLR restricts what items Turkish Cypriots can trade with the EU, which must all must pass through the Greek Cypriot-run Republic of Cyprus first. This discriminatory rule adds time and cost to businesses in North Cyprus.
Although clearly disadvantaged, Turkish Cypriot hellim producers and trade bodies are trying to focus on the positives of the PDO. As long as the cheese and milk from which it is made meets all European animal and public health standards, their product can be sold across the EU.
T-VINE spoke to Funda Ayhan, a food and drinks policy advisor, about the hellim PDO and how Turkish Cypriot producers can best benefit from it.
Before moving to North Cyprus four years ago Funda spent 25 years in the UK Civil Service, much of it at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), where she specialised in the EU scheme for geographical indications.
Funda Ayhan
Funda's career led her to work across the entire food industry, advising small local producers through to international multinational companies, inspections bodies, major supermarkets, and government ministers and politicians.
What will the PDO for Cyprus cheese hellim & halloumi mean to Cypriot and non-Cypriot producers of the cheese?
FA: The Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) is one of the geographical indications which fall under the EU quality schemes. 'Protected Geographical Indication' (PGI) and 'Traditional Speciality Guaranteed' (TSG) are the other designations under the scheme. These geographical indications are awarded to products which are produced, processed and prepared with features and characteristics due to the specific geographical area.
For PDOs, all elements of production, including sourcing of raw materials, must come from within the designated area.
Once a product is registered, only producers complying with the registered product specification who have undergone the necessary verification of compliance checks will be eligible to use the protected name.
Producers will only be able to use the name 'Hellim / Halloumi' and display the PDO designation logo on their products if they are meeting these requirements. This will mean that only Hellim/ Halloumi produced in Cyprus according to the traditional recipe will be able to be marketed in the European Union under that name.
Producers unable to meet the requirements of the PDO will not be eligible to use the name Hellim/ Halloumi to market their products.
How quickly does the PDO come into effect? What happens (or should happen) next?
FA: The Commission Regulation officially registering the name Hellim / Halloumi was published in the EU Official Journal on 13 April 2021 and will enter into force 20 days following publication. However, it does not become applicable until 1 October 2021.
Producers wishing to take advantage of the PDO should use this time to make the necessary adjustments to their business to enable them to meet the PDO specification.
What about those Cypriot producers who can't currently meet the required PDO standards or ratios for the cheese? Must they stop their business, or can they carry on trading at home and abroad?
FA: If producers are currently unable to meet the requirements of the PDO, they will be unable to use the name Hellim / Halloumi to market their products. Stopping business would be an extreme measure.
These producers have the option of adapting their production processes to enable them to meet the required conditions of the registered specification, or find an alternative name under which their product could be marketed.
PDO legislation is about protecting registered products from imitation. This means that any similar sounding names or those that are evocative of the protected name, such as 'Halloumi style cheese', would not be permitted.
What action can be taken if say a Bulgarian or British producer uses 'hellim/halloumi' on their packaging and who is responsible for enforcing the rules?
FA: The EU scheme is directly applicable in all EU Member states. However, enforcement is a minefield as each member state has their own systems and rules, which can vary hugely. It's vital to get expert advice here, but the emphasis will be on businesses in all member states complying with the PDO.
Is the EU PDO applicable/enforceable in non-EU territories, say Azerbaijan, or Qatar, or Australia?
FA: In the case of non-EU countries, protection of GI's may be covered under trade agreements between the EU and non-EU states.
This has happened in a number of cases, for example China, where reciprocal protection of GI products formed part of the wider EU/China trade agreement.
What tips or advice would you give officials and producers to help them maximise this opportunity?
FA: I would like to think that Turkish Cypriots' journey into the world of EU GI's is just starting. It is a very exciting time, which has the potential to broaden horizons for producers in the TRNC.
To say that understanding of the EU schemes in the TRNC is in its infancy is an understatement, but I believe with the right strategies this can be addressed. For example, currently awareness of what the PDO will actually mean to producers and consumers is minimal.
Producers of PDO hellim will be marketing a quality product and as such will be able to attract a premium price for their hellim. From the consumers' perspective, they will have access to authentic quality products.
Nazım Çavuşoğlu, the TRNC Minister for Agriculture and Natural Resources Minister
Targeted promotional activities should form part of a comprehensive strategy to increase understanding: the TRNC authorities need to raise the profile of the PDO and help the status gain meaning across industry and consumers.
In terms of verifications inspections, systems need to be in place to ensure that producers are complying with the registered specification. These inspections will be ongoing for products carrying the protected name.
A long term plan on how these inspections will be monitored and managed will be a crucial element of effective administration of the scheme requirements. An organised solid inspection plan will add to the credibility of the controls taking place in the Turkish Cypriot hellim manufacturing process.
In my experience these strategies have been most successful where there has been input from across the industry sector. Including producers, industry bodies as well as government departments provide a broader view and help to create a sense of ownership.
Looking at the benefits the schemes offer, it would be great to see TRNC-produced hellim carrying the EU PDO logo and enjoying the prestige this status has to offer. But why stop at hellim? There is a wealth of Cypriot products which could similarly benefit from protection.
The Republic of Cyprus made a start by protecting a number of products including 'Loukoumia Geroskipou' (PGI) and 'Kolokasi Sotiras' (PGI).
When you consider that our most important works of art and buildings, and even some trees, are protected and listed, what of our culinary treasures?
These schemes are essentially about safeguarding food heritage and that can only be a good thing.
Main image, top, of three slices of hellim. halloumi cheese, photo © etiennevoss / iStock
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