The headline read: “The Wine and Chocolate Diet.” Who could resist such a promise? Lose weight while drinking wine and eating chocolate? I simply had to read on.

With Easter just around the corner, here’s a tip: Skip the drug store this year. South Jersey is dripping in hand-made, oh-so-sweet chocolate.

If you think that your favorite wine drinker needs a titanium-handled, battery-charged corkscrew perhaps you are overlooking some basics that every wine lover can use and some non-essentials that add a little interest.

Following are some last-minute gifts to consider.

Here are some good reasons to go to Diane Pinder’s brand new chocolate salon in Cranford, Donna & Company.

We know chocolate is powerful stuff. But to the Huichol Indians of central western Mexico, chocolate is sacred.