A journalist from Canada.com was at my Cote d'Or chocolate tasting in Toronto last week and posted a lovely article about chocolate today. In addition to giving a nice rundown of chocolate's benefits (health and otherwise), she also talked a bit about the tasting itself. According to me as quoted in this article, "chocolate is like a story." And indeed it is - there is a beginning that starts with the aroma and the first few seconds as the chocolate melts on your tongue. There is a middle that is made up of the changing flavors and developing textures of the chocolate as it continues to melt. And there is an end, which stretches way beyond the point when the chocolate has totally melted into the realm of aftertaste, which is an integral part of the tasting experience.
And on a related note, the article also reports that chocolate can help you score significantly higher on a standardized scale of sexual functioning. (Who knew that there was such a scale?)
Check out the article here.
