Chocolate Revelations
Between morning garage sale-going, seeing my Dad and step-mom this afternoon and a date to Borders tonight, I didn’t get much public radio listening into my schedule. But I did want to take Matt’s suggestion and share an interesting fact for the day.
So today’s fact is something Tony heard a week or so ago on WOI. I was shocked to learn today that not all chocolate contains milk. Surprisingly, only MILK CHOCOLATE contains milk, and the Nestle company was the first to devise the process that first put milk and chocolate together using powdered milk. Prior to that time, all chocolate was dark chocolate and its creaminess came only from cocoa butter.
I don’t know why this surprises me so much. I guess it is one of those logical things I have never stopped to think about. I’m not that much of a chocolate person though.
Oh, but my favorite flavor of anything is white chocolate raspberry…in case anyone is interested. I had a great piece of said flavor of cheesecake while at Borders today. Tony spent a great deal of time quizing me on how white chocolate raspberry would stack up in a head-to-head challenge versus various other flavor combinations such as caramel/chocolate and pumpkin/whipped cream. (okay, so that’s stretching it to call that a ‘flavor combination’). In such a contest, the white chocolate always comes out on top, but in real life I like variety, so I still wouldn’t actually pick it every time.
And now a preview of coming attractions: Watch this blog soon for shocking tales of things people never explain to you very well before you have a baby. Like the real reason you do twice as much laundry.
Until next time…