We found a list of chocolate tasting terms on the Internet, and we're not afraid to use it. Prunes, ash, wax, coffee beans, smoker's breath: this episode has it all! Plus: we speak French (poorly) a lot. Grab a bar of dark chocolate and join in.
December 8, 2011
I'm so happy that I found your podcast. It's so informative and hilarious. And for the record, your accent and pronunciation are perfect, Molly.
I love your podcasts and am so excited when I visit your site and find there's a new one. Even though a lot of the foods you mention aren't available where I live (sydney, Australia) I still love listening to you and thanks for everything!
One of my brother's favorite childhood memories was standing at Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco in the early 1960s breathing in the smell of chocolate. Then he was very disappointed when he went to San Francisco for a business conference and there was no longer chocolate being made there.
Another bread and chocolate snack is chocoladehagelslag on buttered bread. They are chocolate sprinkles from the Netherlands (my husband's dad was from there). We used to get it at a German grocery in the U-District, but that in gone. I found them at the HT Market, an international supermarket, at the Oak Tree Center in North Seattle. They are located on the Indonesian aisle (which used to be Dutch). (I also pick up Mexican chocolate when I go there)
I was making David Leibowitz's chocolate sauce (with Guittard 61% which apparently has notes of cherry and raisin that last and last) while I listened to this episode. French In Action! I can forgive the tripling of my chocolate budget for a good French In Action reference. Allons a la discotheque!
French in Action...funny how it all comes back to you...the pouting little sister, the professor in front of the chalkboard. When we watched episodes in class there were always whispered discussions of whether or not Mireille was wearing a bra.
When you said you had a dessert idea I pictured exactly what you made. I haven't thought about that in years. I know what I'll be buying tomorrow.
She wasn't.