{"id":558,"date":"2008-09-28T22:52:03","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T05:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collegeofcookbookknowledge.com\/blog\/?p=558"},"modified":"2012-03-19T15:24:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T22:24:07","slug":"robert-steinberg-scharffen-berger-chocolate-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.collegeofcookbookknowledge.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/28\/robert-steinberg-scharffen-berger-chocolate-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Steinberg, co-founder of Scharffen Berger Chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-me-steinberg28-2008sep28,0,2673362.story\"><em>Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/a>, Robert Steinberg, physician, who later co-founded Scharffen Berger Chocolate, died September 17 at UCSF Medical Center, near his San Francisco home. He was 61. Dr. Steinberg had lymphatic cancer.<br \/>\n Steinberg and co-founder John Scharffenberger, and their company, played a key role in fostering a new chocolate sensibility in the U.S.; where the idea that chocolate is &#8220;a complex and interesting food&#8221; replaced the idea that it is merely a &#8220;sweet candy.&#8221; [Alice Medrich].<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.collegeofcookbookknowledge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/scharffen-berger-essence-of-chocolate.jpg\" img class=\"alignright alt=\"The Essence Of Chocolate Cookbook\/Memoir\" class=\"right\" \/>Steinberg and Scharffenberger co-wrote a cookbook\/memoir, <em>The Essence Of Chocolate<\/em>. The book, published in 2006, contains 100+ recipes by the two and by noteworthy pastry chefs like Flo Braker, Jim Dodge, Thomas Keller, . . .  And, Steinberg and Scharffenberg trace growth of their careers and their passion for chocolate as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Los Angeles Times, Robert Steinberg, physician, who later co-founded Scharffen Berger Chocolate, died September 17 at UCSF Medical Center, near his San Francisco home. He was 61. Dr. Steinberg had lymphatic cancer. Steinberg and co-founder John Scharffenberger, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegeofcookbookknowledge.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/28\/robert-steinberg-scharffen-berger-chocolate-founder\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[68,97],"tags":[105,103,104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.collegeofcookbookknowledge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.collegeofcookbookknowledge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.collegeofcookbookknowledge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.collegeofcookbookknowledge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.collegeofcookbookknowledge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.collegeofcookbookknowledge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"http:\/\/www.collegeofcookbookknowledge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.collegeofcookbookknowledge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.collegeofcookbookknowledge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.collegeofcookbookknowledge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}