Thursday, March 31, 2011

Vosges Haut Chocolat

My family eats a lot of gourmet chocolate. I mean, why buy five bars of crappy Hershey's chocolate  when you can have one bar of truly satisfying and interesting chocolate? One of my favorite brands of chocolate is Vosges Haut Chocolat. Exotic chocolates are created by Katrina Markoff from her Chicago kitchen. Katrina is a Cordon-Bleu graduate and personally picks all of the flowers, fruits, and spices that go into the chocolate. She has traveled to places such as Spain, Southeast Asia, Australia, France and Italy, and her chocolates have an East-meets-West theme. Some of the chocolates I have tried:

  •  Naga Bar: Milk chocolate with coconut and curry powder. The coconut provides a nice crunch to this chocolate, and I find it very creamy. 
  • Red Fire Bar: Ancho and Chipotle chiles and cinnamon make this dark chocolate bar kind of spicy. Has a good kick. 
  • Blood Orange Caramel Bar: I found this combination really weird. I didn't like it much; the orange and caramel were pretty overpowering. 
  • Cherry Rooibos Bar: This sweet, delicate milk chocolate bar tastes of tea and cherries. 
  • Peanut Butter Bonbon Bar: The peanut butter in this bar is kind of overpowering and not sweet at all. The taste is good, in the end, but takes some getting used to. Too salty. 
Overall, I think that Katrina should keep experimenting and pushing the boundaries of chocolate (as she is now with her line of bacon products). It's good for someone to push the science and art of chocolate further and keep finding good combinations of products.

1 comment:

  1. OM NOM NOM I want to be there with the free chocolate in bowls. Also, same opinion on chocolate--good or nothing. Question--what is with the TED sign in the background?

    --IBI

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