Well, the sun is shining, the trees are blooming, the stores are selling chocolate eggs. I think it's safe to say that it's officially SPRING!!
And mine has started great! With a wonderful boyfriend (who buys me lots of chocolate ;) ), with amazing friends, a busy, but fun workload, and making plans for my trip to Europe.
But the best part of all was a fine chocolate tasting class I went to last night with a friend. I learned about where the common cacao tree varieties grow (sound smart by saying, "forastero!" when you read "ivory coast") and I learned even more about very high quality brands. It was a blast!! Plus I got to try some AMAZING chocolate. I'm not going to go into that here, because there would be way too much to cover, but I will be talking about this bar I bought afterwards:
There it is, laying on a philosophy book and study notes: Medecasse Citrus and Pink Pepper.
Madecasse has a company story as charming as its chocolate bars: 2 peace corps alumni who served on the island of Madagascar, wanted to make a bigger impact, and so started this fair trade project. Its one of only around 250 bean-to-bar companies in the whole world and its chocolate is GOOD.
It's a thick bar, light brown. The chocolate itself tastes earthy. You can smell the pepper before you bite into it, but the taste is not as strong. I have no idea what the combava fruit is, that it says it contains, but it tastes unique, intriguing...the fruit taste is so light that is requires concentration to catch it.
Subtle, evolving, unique.
Big fan.
My boyfriend loved it too, saying it interested him much more for its subtlety than the other bars we tried.
Also, this company has FOUR TIMES the amount of fair trade impact as a regular fair trade brand.
So feast on, my chocolate-loving friends! It's for a good cause :)
Love,
Sondra
p.s. I looked up "combava fruit." Apparently it is closely related to lime.
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