Chocolate Soiree: How to Throw the Ultimate Chocolate Party (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781500309572)

Author Julie Pech has embraced a passion for health and nutrition her entire life. A longtime competitor in sports, she was always interested in nutrition-for-performance. She studied nutrition and science in college and earned her degree in psychology from the University of Colorado in Denver. Julie worked for Spyder Active Sports for twelve years before leaving to start her own company, then sold it five successful years later to follow her dream of becoming an author. Finally putting her passions together, she set out to prove that when you combine the mind, the body and chocolate, something extraordinary happens. A love for chocolate and a lifelong devotion to nutrition inspired Julie to writing her first book about chocolate: "The Chocolate Therapist: A User's Guide to the Extraordinary Health Benefits of Chocolate." Julie speaks regularly for groups of all kinds including corporations, educational programs, women's groups, men's groups, luncheons, non-profits and more. She's developed her own line of healthy chocolate (available at www.TheChocolateTherapist.com), teaches chocolate and wine pairing classes and has traveled internationally as a guest lecturer on cruise ships educating people about chocolate. Chocolate Soiree was originally written as a handout for Julie's cruise ship lectures. It was later updated and expanded into printed and e-book versions. This edition includes all of her most up to date discoveries in chocolate along with a significant amount of material that has not been printed previously.