Usually, I find it obnoxious when people use the word "epic" to describe anything but harrowing adventures and impressive battle scenes but, in this case, I will make an exception. The Chocolate Festival in Florence was EPIC.
For someone with a sweet tooth as big as mine (which I get honestly. If you know my Dad, you know exactly what I'm talking about!), this was Heaven on Earth. The only problem: $$$. This stuff was expensive. I went 6 times and only bought something once. But, no worries, the samples were nearly sufficient.
It was booths upon booths of Europe's best chocolate, made in every shape, color, flavor and form that you could possibly imagine. When I say every flavor, I mean EVERY flavor.
Some of the strangest chocolates:
-Pepperoncino (red pepper)
-Marijuana
-Various alcohol-infused chocolates (which were disgusting! Grappa in chocolate? Really? Why would you ruin chocolate like that?)
-Various chocolate-infused alcohols (I don't drink but chocolate wine doesn't sound appealing at all!)
-Basil (apparently, some people put it on pasta. Who knew?).
On the bright side, Italians are very well known for their cioccolato fondente (dark chocolate). Personally, I prefer sweet to bitter but this dark chocolate was amazing. And probably the most typical chocolate of Italy is called Cremino, milk chocolate with a hazelnut cream. Yum. I also discovered a love for marzipan at the festival.
If you're not already drooling, just scroll down a bit. You will be.
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| Chocolate Nikons (Taken with a Nikon D40) |
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| Tools! |
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| Yum! |
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| Cremino |
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| Tartufo (truffles) |
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| Marzipan! |
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| Kiwi |
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Valentini |
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| Awww. |
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| Hello Kitty |
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| Gnomes are too cute. |
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| Got Milk? |
Enough said.
~Britt
Wow they had it right outside of the Duermo! Cool! That sounds amazing. In Madrid they have a tomato-throwing festival and Running of the Bulls. Not nearly as cool as a chocolate festival. Glad to see you're doing well!
ReplyDeleteHaha. The running of the bulls would be awesome! Unfortunately it wasn't outside of the Duomo. It was in Piazza Santa Croce...which is a decent trek from my apartment.
ReplyDeleteP.S. How did you get the cool arrangement of photos on your blog beneath the title? I'm trying to make a blog but all I've been able to do is one pic. Did you use a certain template?
ReplyDeleteOh, I made that header in Photoshop and then uploaded it as a single .gif file. Unfortunately, that's really the only way you can do it if you want to use several of your own pictures. Otherwise, you're either stuck using just one of your pictures or a pre-designed header.
ReplyDeleteWhat a delicious post!
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