True, but I was more speaking to a hypothetical question from the world,
"Who makes the best American chocolate?".

That would obviously be Guittard. Scharffen Berger is quite good though.

Geoff

"Alex Rast" > wrote in message
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>>In my opinion, if American chocolate were judged worldwide by one brand,
>>Guittard should be that one. They produce some of the finest chocolate
>>in all the world.
>
> IMHO way better than Scharffen Berger. I think it's perhaps more fair to
> say Guittard represents the very best of the American brands, in the same
> way that, at least IMHO, Cluizel represents the best of the French and
> Domori the best of the Italians. Meanwhile a more representatively
> "typical" U.S. brand should be IMHO Ghirardelli, while Callebaut would be
> "typical" of European brands. Both are IMHO about the same, quality-wise.
> Really I think, however, it's pretty misleading to think of any one
> manufacturer as typical of a nation. Each brand has its own style.