Title caught your eye, didn’t it? This post is rated “XS” for Extra Sexy, the annual DCF Love Month sexy post.I’m distraught when I find out that chocolatier Benoit Nicolay has moved to Singapore. I’ve fallen hard for his Chocolate Spoons, one of his big-seller creations. The business has been taken over by his former...
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It was Raul who opened my eyes to the magic created between local ingredients and chocolate.Previously featured Christmas Gift List purveyors . “Believe it or not, Lori, I’m a Filipino first and last.” That was what Raul Matias, chocolatier and proprietor of Machiavelli Chocolatier told me when we first met. After several...
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Millet Soberano is a culinary magician who makes magical things with chocolate.They stare up at me like seashells floating on a plate of white. Brown, like the color of chocolate smoke and as deeply aromatic. They’re called madeleines, individual scallop shells of sponge cake that are “…so strictly pleated outside and so...
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I’m starting and ending the week with chocolate.Chocolates ruled my childhood but among the scores of brown bars and silver wrappers scattered in my memory, one gold tin sticks out. From an overhead view, the tin’s top was the shape of a cocoa bean, its body extending down and straightening into a slim line before distending...
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When I think of European chocolate, Switzerland and Belgium rule. But after tasting these chocolates, I’m going to add Italy too. When it comes to Italians and chocolate, I think of Nutella which is Italian in origin. While it’s no less special to me, it comes not from a boutique but in a bottle from a supermarket. So I’m...
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