Chocolate Wars
After that fuss over the chocolate sculpture of Jesus, here’s The Ultimate Guide to Chocolate, including a brief history, an account of the search for the highly-prized beans of Chuao, Venezuela, and a taste test involving a 12-year-old consumer, a food critic, and a chocolatier who was former head patissier with Marco Pierre White. This is how they rate Britain’s favorite chocolate:
Consumer: It’s really sweet, really milky, nice and soft in your mouth.
Critic: In a sane world it would be prosecuted as an offence against humanity.
Chocolatier: It’s the pits—I’d rather eat the wrapper.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
April 7th, 2007 at 14:00
I have to admit: when I saw the title, I thought it was on Robert Cormier’s The Chocolate War, one of the (sadly) many over-the-top, guilty pleasure reads of my ill-spent adolescence. Great read, though. I loved the fact that Lucy Atkins took time out to check out all the health claims being attributed to chocolate, though I’m sure the random sampling involved in such a rigorous test must have cost her anywhere from ten to fifteen pounds, all for the sake of journalism. Thanks again! :-)