The Foodie-file: Valentine’s Chocolate
The iconic image of Valentine’s day is a male suitor with a huge satin bowed box of chocolate under one arm off to woo his true love. Do you actually know anyone who has ever received or bought a heart shaped box of chocolates? They must be out there because they make them every year and you see them for sale. I personally think they have gone the way of “wooing” and male suitors with “true love’s.” I imagine that if you ever did buy one it would be filled with old crumbly chocolate with a grey bloom coming off of it. Maybe I’m being too hard on this romantic tradition, maybe there are husbands who bring their wives two pound satin lined velvet boxes of the best quality fresh ganache filled 70 % fine textured chocolate bonbons year after year to great appreciation. This is how I imagine it but it is more likely to be a faded cardboard heart box of six questionably flavoured chocolate “candy” pieces purchased at the local pharmacy.
Oh, oh – there I go again with my jaded ideas on the heart shaped box.
Happy Valentine’s day and hope you get good chocolate to eat, with or without the box!
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I’ve never gotten chocolates from my husband in a heart-shaped box. Only once did I ever get a flower…and that’s because I lost my wedding ring on my birthday and cried all day.
However, this morning I got a wonderful latte made with whole milk (yummy), and when I got home this evening Laundry Mountain was gone. This was a better treat than any box of Godiva or dozen roses!!