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Lets face it...almost all people are mad. Its just that most havent been diagnosed. ;D
I on the other hand am hopeful of becoming an eccentric, if not already there.
Simone, if the actual chocolate making seems way too hard and you have the opportunity to get some of the nibs, do so. With a light roast in the oven, or even raw, theyre a great food to try.
Andy taught me that in this form, the nibs are also the benchmark of chocolatey as a coffee descriptor. I havent tried it yet (hopefully today) but perhaps a little Cote dIvoire on the tongue might work too.
I think my wife thinks I have OCD the way I carry on about coffee.
She now has become a chocolatesnob doing courses and buying all sorts of choclate stuff, Im sure she has spent more on chocolate gear, than I have on coffee gear. The upside of this, the truffles she makes are fantastic, the downside well there isnt one.
Originally posted by Dennis link=1216739345/0#17 date=1217372726
I on the other hand am hopeful of becoming an eccentric, if not already there.
Simone, if the actual chocolate making seems way too hard and you have the opportunity to get some of the nibs, do so. With a light roast in the oven, or even raw, theyre a great food to try.
Andy taught me that in this form, the nibs are also the benchmark of chocolatey as a coffee descriptor. I havent tried it yet (hopefully today) but perhaps a little Cote dIvoire on the tongue might work too.
Dont you have to be rich to be eccentric? :
Chocolate nibs sound much more my style -- chocolate with fibre ;D
I did taste a fingertip-full of my "ivory coast" unadulterated when it first arrived. Im afraid what I thought it set the benchmark for was a quite astonishing bitterness -- I had never encountered straight cocoa before and was slightly stunned (I was expecting chocolate, you know).
Id love to know how the first guys to meet a cacao tree decided the seeds were even remotely edible
Originally posted by simone link=1216739345/20#24 date=1217417872
Dont you have to be rich to be eccentric? :
Or poor
Originally posted by simone link=1216739345/20#24 date=1217417872
Chocolate nibs sound much more my style -- chocolate with fibre ;D
Id love to know how the first guys to meet a cacao tree decided the seeds were even remotely edible
Well, there you go - the nibs are quite nice and actually I find them mild, but full of body and nowhere near the bitterness of cocoa that Ive tried.
And if you wonder about the first guys to try cacao, what possible thoughts must have run through the minds of the first people to see a cow and think, oooh, those udders look good!
Originally posted by Dennis link=1216739345/20#26 date=1217420474
And if you wonder about the first guys to try cacao, what possible thoughts must have run through the minds of the first people to see a cow and think, oooh, those udders look good!
I can pretty much guarantee that any cow being eye-ed off by the 1st masochist to think milk was a good idea wouldve looked nothing like the girls you see in the paddocks these days. More like milking a sheep, only with 10 x the likelihood of getting your head kicked off!
As for Kopi Luwak -- well I just had to go look it up didnt I (thanks TG!)
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