eating chocolate of course! Well, not for 2 weeks straight (although wouldn't that be a dream!) I did eat some last night that I want to share with you though.
A new shop opened in Ballard named Claudio Corallo. Claudio is an Italian that lives in Sao Tome & Principe and owns a cacao plantation. The store in Ballard is his US outlet (for lack of a better term). It's a small shop, selling only his bars and beans - truffles are coming soon. Did you hear me say beans? Yes, real cacao beans that you peel and eat - finally a taste of the real flavor of cacao!
The woman who works in the shop is super knowledgeable - and there is not a crumb of milk chocolate in the place!
So, now to the chocolate I had last night. I sampled most of the chocolates they offered, and decided on the Chocolate sablé 80% com açúar em cristal (dark chocolate with sugar crystals). Now, I know what you are thinking - the sugar totally defeats the purpose of eating dark dark chocolate. BUT it DOESN'T. That's the beauty of this bar. The chocolate (which is single plantation by the way), still has all the complexity of 80% cacao and the sugar just adds a crunch with a slight sweetness that remains separate - in other words the two flavors don't blend together (it's like eating a donut with coffee instead of dunking the donut in the coffee).
That said, check out the shop on Market & 17th in Ballard or go to his website
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