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This week I was given a thin bar of chocolate. Not just any chocolate, mind you; the Rolls-Royce of chocolate, from Chuao, in Venezuela. It is a variety of cacao (and there are 3 varieties) called Criollo - which just means "native"or "local", but is among the rarest, and most prized in the world, representing a mere 3% of world production. The flavour is complex and utterly divine. Here's a brief explanation by an Englishman who bought a small farm in the same zone as Chuao: Willy Harcourt-Cooze
Probably, when we think of "chocolate", we think Cadbury's, Hershey's, Mars or Nestlé, but that's an altogether different, commercial item, miles apart from "real"chocolate. It's the difference between a tetrapack of red wine and a Chateau Lafitte-Rothschild. Nothing wrong with either, by the way; each to their own.
So I just wondered: does anyone else here enjoy "real"chocolate? Have you ever tried it or been to a chocolate tasting?
Probably, when we think of "chocolate", we think Cadbury's, Hershey's, Mars or Nestlé, but that's an altogether different, commercial item, miles apart from "real"chocolate. It's the difference between a tetrapack of red wine and a Chateau Lafitte-Rothschild. Nothing wrong with either, by the way; each to their own.
So I just wondered: does anyone else here enjoy "real"chocolate? Have you ever tried it or been to a chocolate tasting?
