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Julian Bond Julian Bond 106416716945076707395
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After Paul A Young's chocolates, everything else tastes sweet and sickly. And why is there such a...
After Paul A Young's chocolates, everything else tastes sweet and sickly. And why is there such a thing about Belgian Chocolate with all the cream and sugar they put in them? I've recently tried The Chocolate Society (Elizabeth Street, London), L'Artisan Du Chocolat‎ (Lower Sloane St, London), Chocolat Chocolat (Cambridge). And P Young is still the best of the bunch. L'Artisan were still pretty damn good but there was too much emphasis on clever fruit flavours and still too sweet. Their Sea Salt Caramels stand out but can't match PY's. The rest were not really my style. And I think it is all about style. If you're selling to a clientele who were raised on Mars bars and Fruit & Nut, then premier source, high solids, chocolate is all just too, too adult, darling. The only thing I could find of interest in Chocolat-Chocolat was chocolate coffee beans. Still working on the perfect recipe for our Coffee-Chocolate-Tequila Martini. And still looking for a name for it. Equal quantities premium white tequila, Chilled expresso, Chilled chocolate liquor made from P A Young Aztec Chilli chocolate powder and a dash of vanilla essence. Well shaken with cracked ice in a cocktail shaker and served in an cold Martini glass. It's got the 4 Mexican devils of tequila, coffee, chocolate and chilli but El Cupachabra is already taken. "Cuatro Diablo" perhaps. Whatever we decide to call it, it's yummy in a very adult way.
After Paul A Young's chocolates, everything else tastes sweet and sickly. And why is there such a thing about Belgian Chocolate with all the cream and sugar they put in them? I've recently tried
The Chocolate Society (Elizabeth Street, London), L'Artisan Du Chocolat‎ (Lower Sloane St, London), Chocolat Chocolat (Cambridge). And P Young is still the best of the bunch. L'Artisan were still pretty damn good but there was too much emphasis on clever fruit flavours and still too sweet. Their Sea Salt Caramels stand out but can't match PY's. The rest were not really my style. And I think it is all about style. If you're selling to a clientele who were raised on Mars bars and Fruit & Nut, then premier source, high solids, chocolate is all just too, too adult, darling. The only thing I could find of interest in Chocolat-Chocolat was chocolate coffee beans.

Still working on the perfect recipe for our Coffee-Chocolate-Tequila Martini. And still looking for a name for it. Equal quantities premium white tequila, Chilled expresso, Chilled chocolate liquor made from P A Young Aztec Chilli chocolate powder and a dash of vanilla essence. Well shaken with cracked ice in a cocktail shaker and served in an cold Martini glass. It's got the 4 Mexican devils of tequila, coffee, chocolate and chilli but El Cupachabra is already taken. "Cuatro Diablo" perhaps. Whatever we decide to call it, it's yummy in a very adult way.
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Kathi [d/b/a fuzzyscorpio] Kathi [d/b/a fuzzyscorpio] 109504007463132729006
95% of the chocolate products out there don't tempt me for the reasons you describe—fortunately, since there are so many other indulgences that do tempt :). I wonder if the Paul Young chocolates are available in the U.S.? Here, the Rapunzel cocoa powder is pretty good. Valrhona's too, but I haven't seen that for sale in a while. For solid chocolate I like the 85% versions of Lindt Excellence and Green & Black Organic. 6 Mar 2010 6 Mar 2010
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Julian Bond Julian Bond 106416716945076707395
http://www.paulayoung.co.uk/ They do mail order so maybe they'll ship to the USA. Cost ya' though.

There are enough Foodies in the USA, that I'm sure there's somebody out there doing the same kind of thing with quality chocolate in a quality way.

I do like the way there are people trying to make the absolute best quality product they can. It doesn't matter if its coffee, tea, chocolate, gin, tonic, cigars, lamb shanks or corn fed chickens. The challenge is finding them and finding the good ones.
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Kathi [d/b/a fuzzyscorpio] Kathi [d/b/a fuzzyscorpio] 109504007463132729006
Thanks! Maybe I'll just click and drool. :) 6 Mar 2010 6 Mar 2010
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Julian Bond Julian Bond 106416716945076707395
Feeling lucky to live where I do. I'm within reach of London and of course, everything and anything is available there somewhere. But we've also got 3 farm shops, half a dozen organic butchers who understand good, well prepared meat and the best chickens, goose and turkey suppliers in the country all within 15 miles. And I can get on my bicycle, go down to the local high street and get quality gin and other drinkables. The one thing that is hard to find is good tobacco at a reasonable price. Cycle a handful of miles out of town and there's several real ale pubs. Of course the weather isn't great and there's too many damn people and cars. ;) 6 Mar 2010 6 Mar 2010
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Kathi [d/b/a fuzzyscorpio] Kathi [d/b/a fuzzyscorpio] 109504007463132729006
NYC here, and ditto to most of what you just said (especially weather, people, and cars, LOL), but I'm wagering your shopping is better. Big-box, big-chain, cookie-cutter retailing has substantially infiltrated this city under Mayor Bloomberg, killing off many distinctive small enterprises. NYC does still support a lot of specialty food shops, though, thanks to its large upper class, internationalism and traditional preoccupation with things gastronomic. :) 7 Mar 2010 7 Mar 2010