Skip Godiva, try these locally made chocolates
Our intrepid reporter Ilina Ewen takes on a tough assignment: Eat chocolate and finds a lot to like about the wares of some Triangle chocolate makers.
Posted — UpdatedI never understood why sinful and chocolate go hand in hand. Is it wrong to love the soulful goodness that's borne of a simple cacao bean? Sin is wrong, right? Sin is bad, corrupt, immoral, evil. Why on earth would anyone equate chocolate's pure pleasure and delightful rapture with sin? If loving chocolate is wrong, I don't wanna be right.
In light of Valentine's Day and all its treacly sweet glory, I got to sample some of the most delectable handmade chocolates to be found in the 919 area code. This was an agonizingly great assignment. My palate was tempted, teased, and titillated by the likes of Escazu, Péché, WR Chocolatier, and Chocolate Smiles. And I dutifully tasted them all, succumbing to sharing only when it was a social or familial blunder not to.
Lest you think all chocolate is the same, I'm here to tell you it ain't so.
All the chocolates I tasted were lovely to the eye and even more pleasing to the palate. While I'm not a fan of dark chocolate (I know, I know...blasphemy to "real" chocolate connoisseurs and frightfully off track from what you'd expect from a girl who loves her coffee thick and black), I did enjoy the samples all the chocolatiers sent along to expand my horizons. Dark chocolate tidbits included.
And I know Valentine's Day is around the corner and all. But don't sneak chocolate into your day just on the pinnacle of Hallmark holidays. Despite my waistline trying to nag me about the perils of swimsuit season lurking before me, I don't skip chocolate. Ever. Deprivation is not in my culinary vernacular. After all, chocolate is the foundation of every girl's food pyramid, right?
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