Friday, October 19, 2001


oooh -- new artisan chocolate today!

just down the street from my home in sunny brooklyn, a new garden of eden gourment market opened today! it's a cross between the ever-growing fairway's or an eli's vinegar factory type place and a dean and deluca. i may never go shopping in mall-hattan again. the prices are a tad high, but not as exhorbitant as dean and deluca; the high-style element of the vinegar factory is there; and the produce and prepared food element of fairways is there. however, the cheese selection isn't as vast as fairways or dean and deluca, and the produce isn't anywhere near a fairways awe-inspiring spread.

the best thing i found there is an awesome supply of chocolate, one of which i had never tried: bernard castelain. his specialty, as befits one from a wine-producing region, is a chocolate with brandy. however, i bought plain eating bars of 72% dark and a 37% milk chocolate to try.

el rey now has a competitor for my heart. this castelain dark chocolate is a warm dream of deep flavor, with no off-putting bitterness. perfect bar finish, ultimate buttery mouth-feel. i'm eating this with a glass of churchill's 1994 vintage port and i'm never looking back. . .

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