Chocolate Friday.

I saw this book at the bookstore, and now I NEED it. it's called CHOCOLAT by Stefan Lagorce.

It is pictured here looking like a bar of chocolate. The book is hardcover silver-y, and even the page edges are the same color. it has this brown sleeve that slips over the book, making it look just like a huge chocolate bar. Inside there are different recipes and the history of chocolate products around the world. The pictures are gorgeous!!!!!!!

My favorite chocolate cookbook up until now has been UNWRAPPED:Green & Black's chocolate Recipes.

this is the cookbook that put a lightbulb over my head and told me to try pairing dark chocolate and hot chilies together. I love Green & Black's so much. Not only is it superior chocolate, it is all organic and Fair Trade as well.

I have made many of the recipes in this book with good success.

I love to try all different chocolate. The Mexican chocolate, Ibarra which makes Abeulita (YUM!!!) had been my hot chocolate of choice until I found those mexican bars of chocolate you make hot chocolate with.

Dagoba is another great brand. I love all the wierd flavor combinations with stuff like Earl Grey tea wasabi, or grey sea salt.

Rapunzel makes really good chocolate bars, and I used to get them at the supermarket, until they decided to get rid of them. Now I have to wait until I go to the health food store to get one.

There used to be a store in the mall that sold only chocolates from around the world. I would go in there and talk to the nice man who owned the shop about how it was so hard to find Cadbury Flake bars. He would stock them and people would come in an buy every single bar he had.We used to laugh about how whenever I would ask for it, he was sold out.

that is my favorite British candy bar. it's not just chocolate, it is the experience of biting into that bar and having it shatter into a trillion flakes.

I like Cadbury in general. My favorite is the Fruit and Nut bar which is readily available everywhere and is not US$ 6.00/bar.

I love dark chocolate. Sometimes Lindt has the 85% or 90% bars, which I think are great.

I adore the smell of dark chocolate. I wish I could find a perfume that smelled like dark chocolate that lasted. I have a little roll on oil from Origins called Cocoa Therapy which adds orange to chocolate, making it smell exactly like a tootsie roll. It's not meant to be long- lasting.

I usually carry it in my bag.

I just read what i've written and it makes me sound like I could gorge on chocolate. I can be satisfied with a small amount as long as it's good.

And, just because it's expensive, doesn't mean it's "good'. I'm not a fan of Vosges. I mean, I get what Katrina Markoff is doing, but I'm not THAT far out when it comes to flavors in my chocolate.

I'm also not a fan of Godiva. I used to think this was the height of sophistication. Nah....

I want to try some chocolates from Maison du Chocolat!!!!!