"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
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> On Mon 01 Aug 2005 04:15:41a, Margaret Suran wrote in rec.food.cooking:
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>> Vilco wrote:
>>> Mi e' parso che OmManiPadmeOmelet abbia scritto:
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>>>
>>>>Lindt Lindors or truffles.
>>>>Simply because they are sinfully smooth and delicious! :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> Yess! The best mainstream product.
>>> --
>>> Vilco
>>> Think Pink , Drink Rose'
>>>
>>>
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>> I seldom eat chocolate, but when I do, I like Guittard's L'Harmonie
>> 64% Bittersweet. It is difficult to find in New York City.
>>
>> I keep Ghiradelli's Double Chocolate Chips and bars on hand for
>> baking, but I find it rather sweet for eating.
>
> I used to love going to the little chocolate shope in the Plaza Hotel.
> They had a ownderful variety of European chocolates, as well as a variety
> of different European truffles flown in fresh. It was almost as much fun
> picking them out as eating them.
>
> --
> Wayne Boatwright *¿*


My memory of the best truffles I've ever had. At the Candy Jar in San
Francisco. (They do not mail these truffles.) Not cheap. But DH brought
home a box of candy for my birthday, about half were these were what I call
'fresh' truffles and the other half were the 'tempered-type chocolate
covered truffle). Not knowing the cost of these, I was ravaging all these
fresh-type deep chocolate truffles as fast as I could while taking a bite
out of the other kind, then giving them to my Akita standing by. (I've since
learned that chocolate is not good for dogs, but I don't think it hurt her a
bit, she was a chocaholic.) For several years I visited the Candy Jar in San
Francisco before we moved east. I have my chocolate blocks on hand, ready
to make some soon, starting out with the Giradelli chocolate I got at TJ's.
(I've already made some with Scharffenberger, but they were a bit
fruity-tasting for my buds.)
Dee Dee