A gastronomic history of Love, chocolate, murder & bliss. Along with spectacular chocolate, of course. Yes, the painfully rare Southern Mexican chocolate was there. And yes, it was a wonderfully romantic night! Here’s what we tasted…
Valrhona Tanriva, 33% Milk Chocolate from Madagascar
Chocolate is a divine, celestial drink, the sweat of the stars, the vital seed,
divine nectar, the drink of the gods, panacea and universal medicine.
–Geronimo Piperni
Quoted by Antonio Lavedán, Spanish army surgeon, 1796
Valrhona’s best Tanriva in many years–round flavors of yellow fruits and sweet butterscotch.
Felchlin Cru Sauvage, 68% Dark Chocolate from Bolivia
Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.
–John Milton, The Devil’s Advocate
Swiss chocolate maker Max Felchlin brings us a layered earthy chocolate made exclusively from wild Bolivian cacao.
Tango, 67% Madagascar-Ghana Blend
Le vent chaud de l'eteThe warm Summer breeze Souffle sur sa chemise, Blows on his shirt, Il pense a son jouter, He thinks about his afternoon snack-- Chocolat et cerises. Chocolate and cherries.--Gilbert Laffaile
SeventyPercent.com rated chocolate maker Alan McClure’s Sambirano Valley, Madagascar as one of the best chocolates in the world. Tango, a Sambirano Valley blend with tart plum and cherry notes, is a collaboration between McClure and Dancing Lion Chocolate.
Bonnat 75% Cacao del Xoconsuzco
The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times each day, they even have it served to them in church.
–Jean-Antheleme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, 1825
An ancient criollo strain of cacao, Xoconuzco displays all the delicate complexity of it’s Southern Mexican lineage. This cacao will change your perception of “bitterness” in chocolate.
Introducing Kenshi, 70% Dark Milk Chocolate
Je ne connais rien de plus erotique quine tablette au fort pourcentage de cacao.
I know nothing more erotic than a bar of strong chocolate.
–Paul-Loup Sulitzer, French writer
The newest collaboration between Award-Winning Patric Chocolate’s Alan McClure and Dancing Lion Chocolate, Kenshi slices the boundaries between dark and milk. This may be one of the most nuanced and remarkable chocolates you ever taste.