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Most memorable chocolate experience:
I attended culinary school and studied patisserie and baking. One day our instructor (chocolatier), told us to bring in different types of chocolates to taste and compare. Someone brought in an Italian chocolate that I tasted. A few minutes after I ate it I felt absolutely euphoric! I felt like I was floating 2 feet from the floor. This feeling lasted about 2 minutes but it was the best chocolate experience I ever had!
My favorite chocolate is:
any dark chocolate

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Chocolates in Alaska

A couple of years ago I experimented with some of our local wild berries and made some jellies for people to taste. I added them to my chocolate collection that I had put together. There is a berry here that the locals call "laughing berries". They are salal berries and are extremely flavorful. People use them to make jams and jellies and pancake syrup. I made jellies out of the salal berries and they were very well received. They had ten times the flavor of the other jellies I had made with wil… Continue

Posted on April 8th, 2008 at 3:33pm — 1 Comment (Add)

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At 8:14pm on April 4th, 2008, Chocoflyer said…
Love the kitty pic! Welcome! Mmmm, Italian dark choc....they make some of the best
At 8:18pm on March 28th, 2008, Clay Gordon said…
Nina:

Welcome to The Chocolate Life! Love the story - do you remember which Italian chocolate it was? Where did you study?
 
 

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