It comes in hunks. Slabs. It smells up the whole bag you carry it in, and you want to keep sniffing it. Baking chocolate is when quality really counts. But unless you bake two similar items, at the same time, using different chocolates - and I'm not a scientist - it's a little hard to compare ...
and you've got my full attention. At the California Restaurant Association Show here recently, I picked up a Ghirardelli Milk and Caramel bar. It has a very glammed up but attractive photo on the gold box. Nicely designed. The milk chocolate is a little sweeter than usual, but works well with the tangier taste of ...
Absolute no for Trader Joe's Chocolate Chunk Cookies. The cookies are dry and the chocolate is not satisfying and tastes cheap. I'm Yankee thrifty, but I'm tempted to throw the rest of them out! Ingredients look fine (ie, no corn syrup, which I won't eat anymore), and there's a bit of honey, which will usually ...
I've done cartoons on chocolate from the very beginning of my cartoon career, even before chocolate became acceptable, healthy, and girly, instead of some shameful vice I had to hide. (Or was that just my family? :)) So I had a nice stash of cartoons on chocolate to show the editor of my proposed book on ...
