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owlfish

Chocolate Week

Oct 21, 2007 23:35

Tuesday - Rococo organized an hour's talk at the Natural History Museum, a visit to Britain's oldest cocoa pod. It was brought back as part of a collection of Jamaican plants, part of Sir Hans Sloane's systematics collection. Linnaeus, when Sloane was old, worked through Sloane's collection as part of his systematization work. The curators were ( Read more... )

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juniperus October 22 2007, 00:34:05 UTC

I swoon. Amazing!

Some day I want to be able to make a post with the subject: Chocolate week
:)

taldragon October 22 2007, 09:15:06 UTC

yay! can i repost the relevant bits in my LJ? i meant to write this up yesterday and didnt have the brain for it.

owlfish October 22 2007, 09:35:22 UTC

Yes, you may.

taldragon October 22 2007, 11:06:45 UTC

done!

merci beaucoup! siusaidh October 22 2007, 13:08:59 UTC

i enjoyed experiencing chocolate week vicariously through your descriptions. then i got to the end to find a wonderful suprise: plaisir returns to edinburgh! come on up for a visit and we will welcome it back together!

Re: merci beaucoup! owlfish October 26 2007, 16:07:03 UTC

I look forward to it! It's a very nice chocolate shop - or was in its last incarnation anyways.

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owlfish October 26 2007, 16:06:31 UTC

I've been eating everything in order of expiry date, and so haven't had any of the miso and walnut cookies. I will keep you posted on this Important Issue.

I haven't had the tobacco chocolate in months (it doesn't expire until the end of this week). My memory is that it's a bit spicy and makes my mouth all weirdly tingly in a very unexpected way. Yes, it uses actual tobacco.

The praline spread is really quite nice - although unexpectedly peanut-y - and a good balance between nut and chocolate. So far, of all the chocolate-and-nut spreads I've been sampling this year, I'd give the prize to Le Pain Quotidien's nutella-a-like for best chocolate-and-nut spread. Still, if I happened to be at Demarquette, I wouldn't mind buying another jar of it. And maybe the chocolate and maple spread too.

Funny quote anonymous May 13 2008, 16:57:07 UTC

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed
to be doing at the moment.
-- Robert Benchley

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