I must give these two people kudos. I’d never heard of them before my financial advisor had them deliver a tower of their handmade, ecologically responsible, made mostly from local ingredients … chocolates. It was probably a “thanks for not looting your account with us to pay for your new house, and having to make me expense account any more lunches with you in NYC” more than anything else. Whatever the case, it was a nice gesture, which introduced me to John & Kira’s chocolates.
Mostly, I don’t like chocolate all that much. I don’t hate it; I’m indifferent. Even when I was a kid, I asked my mom to find some Betty Crocker spice cake mix for my birthday cake, instead of chocolate. Mom never could cook anything good from scratch, except by accident, because she followed recipes as if they were gospel, instead of guides. “The recipe called for one can of cream of chicken soup, so I don’t know what happened.” Spice is still my favorite cake flavor, although I have a much better recipe for baking one from scratch than the box cake mixes.
Anyway, moving along to the John & Kira’s chocolates … these are divine. I don’t know anything about their assorted mix, but their honeybees and figs are to die for! They cost a small fortune, but if you ration them to one per person for dessert, or order some for a special occasion, you can justify it. OMG, these two people just might make me start to like chocolate. They won’t make me embrace hippy-dippy living, but I really do like their chocolates, which is bizarre, but so be it.
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