Chocolate for your Spiritual Advisor

Chocolate for your Spiritual Advisor
Originally uploaded by thegreatplotnik.

Even though The Great Plotnik is the titular head of a spiritual movement that is growing by leaps and bounds...ok, make that fits and starts...ok, so it's not growing, awwright? but it has potential, OK? Every day we get many, many hits. OK OK! So the SAME people read the DANG blog will you get OFF it?

As The Great Plotnik was saying...although he is the Chief Cheese, he still has to work. Fortunately he has a great job, when it's not stultifyingly boring. Sometimes it's fun, and occasionally it gets world class, such as this whole past week when Plotnik has been photographing chocolate shops and interviewing their owners. Much chocolate tasting has been involved.
Much.

"Ah, you woood laike to semple mebbe Belgian raspberry truffle weez hazlenut and ganache?"

"Oh, I shouldn't! Oh, I couldn't! HAND it over!"

Special marks must be given the chile dark chocolate nut bark from Chocolate Covered in Shnoe Valley and of course the amaretto and Earl Gray truffles from XOX Truffles in Shnorth Beach. The other truffle places, ehh -- sorry, old friend, and you know who I'm talking about, but you're just a glorified Hershey bar now. XOX is the best, end of sentence.

Truffles notwithstanding, the hot move in chocolate circles, as it is in wine and cheese, and always has been in girlfriends, is to get your chocolate from a single, unique source. Stores have sprung up in Saint Plotniko who handle only the world's best chocolate confections, made by so and so in Meulan, France, from chocolate grown in the Ivory Coast by Farmer Mbwane. All of these single source shops sell wonderful chocolate, but for TGP's taste the best by far is Cocoa Bella on Shmunion Street. The above box of chocolates from Cocoa Bella is not cheap, but WOULD make a wonderful present for that special spiritual advisor on your Christmas list-nik.

Of course, he would give all the chocolate to charity (his family), so you would need to buy two boxes. For that, you would need an extra part-time job.

Can't close without another mention of that chile dark chocolate nut bark. The chocolate is great and there is no taste of chile at all. Ten seconds after you swallow it your throat goes "Aiii-yeeee! Mas! Mas!"