Over lunch with the brilliant and marvellous Gena last week in Washington, D.C., I found myself accepting the challenge to write my next chocolate review post in haiku.
What can I say? I’m always up for wordplay.
This one’s for you, Gena.
Coco Handmade Organic Pink Peppercorn & Nutmeg Dark Chocolate
gift from Spay Lady
pink peppercorn and nutmeg
incense aroma
take a bite and sense
hot fudge walnut lingering
pepper like deep earth
nutmeg’s quiet warmth
is hidden in the darkness
needs intensity.
Coco Organic Rose & Black Pepper Chocolate
hide-and-seek once played
this second block from Lorraine
seemed a rose trophy
like Turkish Delight
and crisp dark sweet floral truth
tastes not once of soap
smooth muscovado
pepper hits a tingling throat
queenly chocolate.
Chocolate Stella Organic By Nature White Chocolate with Cacao Nibs
this one from my mum
cocoa butter like thick cream
whipped with vanilla
packed with cacao nibs
their woodsy bitter crunching
balances the sweet.
Theo Organic Gingerbread Spice Milk Chocolate
ginger cinnamon
nutmeg clove and cardamom
pervade Theo’s bar
scent like pain d’epice
sugar sweet and sweet sugar
chai not gingerbread.
You are all brilliance and beauty.
I almost can’t breathe with anticipation, my Lisa.
Ooooh nutmeg and chocolate – one of my favourite spices yet I’d never even considered it as a pairing with chocolate.
*rushes off to the kitchen to grab some Lindt, the jar of nutmeg and start meltin’ and mixin’*
You better have eaten that straight with a spoon.
The nutmeg and peppercorn sounds amazing!! I used to hate nutmeg, but lately I’ve loved the warm fall spice flavor… I imagine with the peppery hints it would be a flavor explosion.
I’ve always loved it, largely due to the fact that my mum sprinkles it atop our family’s special thick-set-spoonable custard recipe
Yum gingerbread milk chocolate!! So many interesting products in America. Great Haiku’s
Thanks fellow Hannah!
WHERE can I get that Stella white chocolate?!
You should do haiku posts more often. Brilliant.
We must figure this out! You definitely need it to ensure an accurate comparison with Askinosie’s and Christopher Elbow’s versions of white chocolate with cacao nibs!
Eeep, it was nerve-wracking even doing it once!
Hannah, sweet Hannah
More decadent than her spoils
Words are not enough
I SQUISHY YOU DARLING! xo
SO relieved to know that rose/black pepper combo did not once taste like soap! (I was worried).
Now wondering if you got my more recent email–the one in which I described the contents of the package?? I am beginning to think the emails are not getting through-?
Oh my gosh, this is terrifying. No, I did not. And I haven’t been getting emails from Hannah, either. How many people are sending me emails that aren’t getting through?! I’m going to try emailing you, and maybe if you copy-paste into a reply, that will work.
The haikus are so pretty! What better combination is there than poetry and chocolate? Well, maybe ginger spice and chocolate
Oh, thank you! That truly means a lot. Even though it was a half-joke with Gena, I was a bit nervous about actually doing it
if gina told me to do it I would too – love her posts and love your haiku – am impressed at how you manage to get tasting notes into haiku – though I miss your comments on the lovely packaging
Ohh another chocolate review
missed reading these ~ The chocolate with black pepper sounds intereesting ~
Oh gosh! Thank you. I sometimes get it into my head that they’re boring to read and then I find it hard to get back into the groove of writing them. But rest assured I’ve got a zillion chocolates to write up in the near future!
Ooh I’m so glad that you liked them Spay Lady! *sigh* now those hide and seek days seem so long ago…
It scares me how long ago. But surely that’s incentive for you to come play in Canada?
P.S. Is it just me or are those haiku chocolate descriptions brilliant? I think you must do more!!
Aw!!! Thanks darling! I just might. I think the challenge was for limericks next, though
Hannah queen of chocolate, your words are truly poetic! I just glided down to the fridge to sample some berry-flecked chocolate and seek my muse…
*hugs* Oh how I wish the chocolate would help me channel my muse into other forms of writing, not just for its own edification!
This is positively brilliant–no, YOU are positively brilliant.
No, I’m just silly!!
Poetry and chocolate – was there ever a better way to spend the day?
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Damn, those are the prettiest chocolate packaging I’ve seen on your blog and well, anywhere!
More wallpaper options!
I want the gingerbread one. I would never have believed chocolate came in so many varieties and flavours until I found your blog! And so many of these in this post have beautiful wrappers xx
Totally just picked up both a dark chocolate with bacon, and a dark chocolate with vegan bacon. It gets wackier
Oh man.. so much lovely packaging on this that I would keep them and use as wallpapers
MARRIED LADY YOU’RE BACK!! Hugs hugs hugs unicorn disney tako mind power hugs!
Posting in haiku
Crystallised thoughts of wonder
You amaze me so
I miss you, jazzy lady of wonder. xo
You have found your calling
My only disappointment is that the gingerbread one tasted like chai and not gingerbread (but of course that has nothing to do with you or your post, just the chocolate!).
Ah, perhaps I should give up my novel/self-deprecating self-help book ideas and write a collection of food haiku instead?
LOVE IT! Well done Hannah!
Ahhh!!! This is amazing. When Hannah takes on a challenge, she triumphs!!!
These made me smile and laugh, all of them, but particular guffaws erupted after
“like Turkish Delight
and crisp dark sweet floral truth
tastes not once of soap”
Chocolate+haikus = I just may kidnap you and keep you in DC forever (ok, for as long as I’m here).
Yes I will thank you yes indeed you may I will stay kidnapped yes that would be lovely thank you my dearest meet you at sweetgreen?
I am so grateful that the universe whispered to me that I should write and schedule this post for this weekend, Gena, now that I know it made you laugh.
Pressure’s on for the limericks now though! xoxo
Is that Theo bar
Left from last December? Or
is it Xmas time?
I can’t write a haiku response because I can’t decide whether you’ll think “January” has three or four syllables.
Four for me:)
pink peppercorn and nutmeg- I WANT!! love this post and all the yummy chocolate you are presenting!
Beautifull post.
And beautifull pictures!!!!!
Bye from Italy
Thank you!
Love the chocolate; especially nutmeg dark chocolate!
What a coincidence. I’ve been reading haikus like crazy lately. A recent favorite:
Bass
picking bugs
off the moon.
-Nick Virgilio
Such amazing chocolates! Pink peppercorn and nutmeg! That is new to me. I love the mermaid packaged one, so pretty
Yep, that one totally appeals to the Disney lover in me. Go Ariel!
OMG Gingerbread chocolate. I so want that. Pity I’m stuck here. Sigh. I can’t believe the range of chocolates that you find sometimes. I know you have some scouts as well, but still, I’m sure you must be up there with world record stats on different chocolates consumed. I bow to your mastery.
You may touch my hand, lightly.
And hey, you’re one of my wonderful scouts! Since travelling, I’ve actually had to buy my own chocolate for the first time in years. Very odd… 
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