Last week I had a big professional meeting, not about chocolate, yet most of it was taken up talking about chocolate. I can’t think of another food stuff that can so bind people together. Maybe cheese, or chips, but chocolate talks to the child in all of us.
One of the questions I was asked was, ‘Where can I get a dark chocolate egg that has lots of nuts in?’ At Easter, I rarely go dark chocolate (although, see later), it has to be milk for me, but Venchi does some really good offerings of dark eggs so pebble-dashed with hazelnuts, from £13/70g, they are strangely, pox-like-fascinating. (For an egg with bits in, in general, nothing beats a Gabriella Cugno egg, but they sold out two weeks ago, 48 hours after launch).
