Fancy flavour combinations and sugary delights are all well and good for keeping the novelty alive in one’s relationship with chocolate, but there are times when nothing but the darkest, most intense, barely-a-whisper-of-sweetness chocolate will suffice. E. Guittard Nocture 91% As is usually the case with higher-percentage chocolates, this 91% Nocturne by American chocolate company E.Guittard is very dark in [...]
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Replace “family” with “tiny little rural Southern town”, and maniacal fratricidal lion with creepy-but-apparently-harmless middle-aged man, and Zazu could well have been referring to Jonesville’s Mr. Bottom. Three things to note, first: 1) This man’s name was not, in fact, Mr. Bottom. However, I honestly thought it was for several days, so have decided it’s an apt pseudonym. 2) The [...]
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I fear I’m doing the hard-working folks at Chuao Chocolatier a disservice. I love their Chinita and Spicy Maya bars, and pre-blog brought five of each back to Australia after my last U.S. excursion. Yet since starting this blog, my experiences with Chuao have engendered little more than a lack of enthusiasm. I do think the Firecracker has an interesting premise, and that [...]
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It is certainly the case that discovering new chocolates tends to make me emit little squeals of joy and jump up and down in the middle of gourmet stores and supermarket aisles. Yet for all the excitement that chocolate brings, nothing can compare to the moments, shared with people you love, that fill you near-to-bursting with utter happiness and contentment. The moments [...]
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Salt and chocolate. I think we’ve established that I’m a fan, so it should come as no surprise that when I heard about Salazon Chocolate Co., a self-described “salted-chocolate based brand”, I immediately contacted the founder to ask where I might be able to locate his chocolate. Thanks to this blog, I was offered samples of each chocolate flavour [...]
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There are moments, whilst travelling, when one is faced with the incontrovertible realisation of being in an entirely different culture. For example, one might be travelling in Japan and suddenly spy a man riding a bike with a pet cat draped around his neck, or be wandering through a marketplace in Mauritius and suddenly be whisked [...]
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