Behold the Chocolate Pundit

My wife Julie, the chocolate connoisseur, is now a media-anointed Chocolate Authority, courtesy of Bloomberg.

Julie Anderson, 37, of Joliet, Illinois, eats chocolate at least once a day and occasionally writes up her thoughts on a blog (www.boogaj.com/chocolate_blog). She says there is distinct taste difference when other fats are used for cocoa butter.

"Any product that doesn't have the cocoa butter doesn't taste as good and doesn't feel the same on your tongue,'' said Anderson, who wrote to the FDA opposing the change. "A high-quality chocolate, when you put it in your mouth, it melts and becomes very silky. With hydrogenated oils, it feels kind of waxy or greasy.''

Lest that first sentence cast any aspersions, I must point out that she works out intensely five days a week and keeps a very modest diet, thus retaining her girlish figure while still occasionally sating her sweet tooth.