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Eddie Grove

(Alex Rast) writes:

> at Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:32:38 GMT in >,
> (Eddie Grove) wrote :
>
>>Henning Sudbrock <""hsudbrock _AT_\"@ web.de"> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> does anyone know about chocolate with about 89 to 95 percent cocao in
>>> it? In Germany one usually gets 85% chocolate, and then again 99%
>>> chocolate, the first one being to sweet, the latter one too bitter for
>>> my taste. Has anybody seen something in between?
>>>
>>> Thanks, Henning
>>
>>I'm looking at the remains of a bar:
>>
>>Plantations
>>Arriba Chocolate
>>Premium Varietal Chocolate from Ecuador
>>90%
>>
>>Maybe that is enough information for you to search it out. I don't
>>think I would recommend it, but it is 90% and it certainly isn't bad.
>>
>
> I would definitely NOT recommend Vintage Plantations' 90% which is, sadly,
> a very poor chocolate indeed. Fortunately, there is a superb chocolate
> which also happens to be Ecuador Arriba at the same percentage - Slitti
> Super Novanta Tropicale 90%. Awesome and simply the best 90% chocolate on
> the market. It should be able to be found with a reasonable search.
>
>
> --
> Alex Rast

I've been buying Dolfin 88% at a Whole Foods Market recently. It
doesn't quite fall into the 89-95 range, but maybe it is close
enough. It is good enough to recommend. I haven't tried the Slitti,
so I cannot compare the two, but at less than half the price it
is not clear it is fair to compare them.

Eddie