Curating Taste

This is my first time to Australia and before I get a chance to get some craft bean to bar chocolate, I'm trying what the city has to offer! The two bars from were both nice with the lemon myrtle one being extra nice! My husband really enjoyed the bonbons but they weren't quite my jam.

Drinking chocolate at was a lovely experience! They used Vahlrona and I appreciated that it was listed as such. So often they don't tell you! Thanks
for your compelling reel.

I'm saving the rest of my chocolate consumption for the craft bars I'm getting in a few days!

This is a classic! Making Chocolate is a stunning book to add to your craft chocolate collection. Especially if you ever want to try out chocolate making on your own. This was one of my first chocolate books and I don't regret it!

I'm going to start with the beginning paragraph of this book.

I pluck a chocolate heart from the counter and drop it onto my mouth just as I've done a zillion times before. Letting it melt a bit, I slide it around on my tongue, then nibble off the steps of the veins and arteries. I push it toward one cheek, then another, maximizing taste bud contact. By now the aorta has dissolved, leaving only the ventricles and atria. I maneuver the now vesselless heart directly to the center of my tongue and nestle it beneath the roof of my mouth. Then, with my crooked front teeth, I bite the heart in half. This heart comes from the rare Nacional cultivar of cacao, straight from the deepest depths of the Amazon jungle. And that's precisely how it tastes. Notes of Earth, would, flour, nut- maybe almond? There's a hint of amber honey.. And some kind of fruit I can't put my finger on.

Any book for middle school kids that starts like this is going to be in my library! This was a super cute book and I definitely recommend reading it or gifting it!