I’ve got three of these boxes to give away to the three biggest fans of Dessert Comes First.Christmas is all about giving and I’ve always thought it’s great to be grateful. This blog of mine is a personal endeavor but it’s really for you, my valued reader, whom I do it for. The great people at Royce’ Chocolate are also...
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This purveyor is a classic example of the student overtaking the teacher.Previously featured Christmas Gift List purveyors . I’ve never forgotten about Benoit Nicolay, the Manila-based Belgian chocolatier who made my custom-made chocolates of choice. When I began thinking of whom to invite for the Dessert Comes First Christmas...
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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...
read moreGive one box to your beloved; the other, keep for yourself.Can chocolate be patriotic? It can, if the chocolates come from Machiavelli Chocolatier. Artisan chocolate maker Raul Matias ably melds masterful technique and Philippine ingredients to create confections that speak to the very heart of being Filipino. Consider truffles...
read moreAn unlikely name for a specialty chocolate line that celebrates Filipino flavors.Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 – 1527) was an Italian political philosopher and statesman. His political treatises – most notably, The Prince (1513) – generated controversy (then and now) because of its outlined strategies devised to...
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