Look what arrived in my mail just in time for Easter - a gift from fellow chocolate-lover and dear friend Olga, who I had seen recently in Chicago, when she had told me about this new chocolate discovery.
Pure Dark has a store in the West Village in New York, and their approach is to offer chocolate with minimum processing and maximum flavor. The "Slab" that I received is rough and heavy, like a slab of marble or stone, not tempered into a mold or neat rectangular shape - this is not a chocolate "bar". The color is dull and not shiny like commercial chocolate. And the taste...mmmm. It's like the difference between diner coffee and a fine roast, with a clean and not sugary aftertaste.
It's surprisingly easy to cut into, much more so than the chocolate you use for baking. Dangerously so. I don't even want to call it "candy", it's so good.
OK, back to being hidden in the drawer, you dark, lovely, evil, delicious thing, you.
