Notes on chocolate
March 20th 2007 02:40
-- There's never a glass and a half of full-cream dairy milk, because moisture ruins chocolate.
-- White or milk chocolate should be eaten straight away. Dark chocolate can be kept for up to 18 months.
-- White chocolate isn't technically chocolate, because there are no beans in it.
-- Australia consumes more chocolate at Easter than any other country.
-- It's unclear whether chocolate causes pimples.
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Use all five senses.
1. Sight. Chocolate should be aesthetically pleasing. It should have a "natural shine" to it, rather than a plasticky shine or no shine at all. It should be free of streaks and bubbles. And your finger should leave a mark as soon as you touch it.
2. Smell. You can smell in two ways (says the Lindt man): not only before you eat, but while and after you're eating, smelling while breathing out through your nose.
Often little bunny sniffs are more effective than long inhalations.
3. Hearing. The basic chocolate block should make a crisp pleasing snap.
4. Touch. Chocolate should be smooth.
5. Taste. You should take your time, roll it around in your mouth, use your full palette, savour all the flavours. There shouldn't be a bad aftertaste. The chocolate should feel like fine-grained velvet in your mouth. The connoisseur can differentiate bean variety, say between Cuba and Madagascar: -- at its most refined, eating chocolate is like appreciation of wine.
Chocolate should be melted on the tongue (says the Hunter Valley chocolate man, though perhaps this can obscure the pleasure of texture -- the crack of the Magnum ice-cream is one of its selling points).
Chocolate should be eaten with the eyes closed (say I).
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This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Chocolate.
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Comment by Damo
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Chololate should be kept away from my daughter as she some kind of chocoholic.
Comment by Adrian
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You don't have to keep chocolate away from your daughter -- just make sure she eats dark chocolate rather than milk or white. Lots of healthy antioxidants, and, depending on the cocoa quantity, not that much fat.
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We've missed you.
Yum, too. Great pic.
And you needed a reference? Knowledge 'out there' in the community.
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Whoa, you sure know how to get a girls attention!
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Flashes of memories
Comment by DuskDevi
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This is choc porn!
Comment by Tracy
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Love your description, Dusk....
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Dusk ....chocolate porn? Ha ha....
Comment by Anonymous
Is it chocolate Porn or is it chocerotica ?
Is the lindt chocolate man like Duff Man from the Simpsons ?
And if white choclate isn't choclate what should we call it ? Sickening ? ... boom boom ... !
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