The more chocolate I eat, the less chocolate I have. Rationally, I understand this. And it’s not an issue when the chocolate I’m eating comes from the supermarket across the road, or the fancypants deli a half hour drive away. But it makes me sad when the chocolate I’m munching goodbye to is chocolate from [...]
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In a perfect world, Valrhona’s Guanaja Grué would be one of my primary go-to chocolates. In that same world, I wouldn’t still be dealing with a non-healing toe which, despite two surgeries and going-on-a-year of being problematic, continues to plague me. I’d have a pet pug that didn’t shed, pistachios would grow everyday on a [...]
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Dear Boathouse By The Lake, Do you remember me? What’s that you say – you’re not quite sure? Allow me to jog your memory. Picture this: A young lady in a new dress brought all the way back from The City of Lights, sitting at one of your big round tables, celebrating the 90th birthday [...]
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Having already chatted about the lunch celebration my Mum and I hosted for my Grandpa on his 90th birthday, it seems only fitting that I tell you about his birthday dinner at The Boathouse By The Lake, one of Canberra’s fancier restaurants. I must admit that I found the food this year a little less spectacular in innovation and execution than [...]
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Now this, my friends, is right up my chocolate alley. High cacao percentage? Check. Classy packaging that tells the cashier and any nosy fellow shoppers that I’m a serious and respectable chocolate eater? Check. Marketing speak that says nothing about fruitiness or tanginess, which are my least favourite chocolate flavours? Check. Let’s see how it [...]
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Vintage chocolate is a fairly new concept, but derives from the same basic premise accepted by wine makers and drinkers: that not only do different harvests of raw materials (grapes for wine, or cacao beans for chocolate) create end products with contrasting taste profiles but, in some cases, these products get better with age. With [...]
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First things first, I feel I ought to make clear that my last post was a trickery of sorts. At this current point in my life (read: recent graduate caught halfway across the unemployed tightwire with a PhD beckoning from one end and the workforce from the other), I absolutely would not intentionally spend $660 [...]
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