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Chocolate train at entrance.
Spices & Tease
5th Avenue Chocolatiere
Sendall Chocolates
Chocolate sculptures
Peanut Butter & Co.
Chocolate Fashions
Callebaut
Guido Gobino
PCB Création
Gnosis
William Dean Chocolates
Comptoir du Cacao
Guy Roux
Payard and François Payard Bakery
Chocolat Michel Cluizel
2 Chicks with Chocolate
Truffles
Chocolate Christoph Roussel
Rogue Confections
Mary Chocolate Co., Ltd.
Lily O’Brien’s
Most of the booths were high-end chocolate manufacturers so they had samples of chocolates with a high-cocoa content. I didn’t care much for these, they weren’t sweet enough and even tasted like a sugar-free product. I liked the truffles and sweeter milk chocolates but they all tasted the same to me. The organic and vegan chocolates had mostly a gritty consistency. One of the members of the Meetup group that I came with, Dan, told me to try the Madagascar chocolate first and then the Indonesian because according to him the Indonesian was spicier. I must not be a connoisseur because they tasted the same to me. Another reason I don’t think I’m much of a connoisseur is because my favorite chocolate was the milk chocolate-covered potato chips by Neuchatel and connoisseurs don’t eat potato chips. I liked the fondue from Les Fondues au Chocolat – Aux Anysetiers du Roy and even bought one for my brother and his family for $19 but they had a bad sampling tactic. They were so stingy that they only put out toothpicks to try the fondue. I couldn’t even taste it until I dipped 3 toothpicks in it. I paid $18 for a ticket and all of the other booths were quite generous but I bought the salty (fleur de sel) caramel chocolate fondue from them anyway. I also bought Thé de cacao (cocoa tea) for $5 from François Pralus Maitre Chocolatier which unfortunately can’t be bought from this manufacturer online.
I walked home from the chocolate show and that took me an hour and then 3 hours after the chocolate show I was still uncomfortably full when I went on the treadmill. Every sample was the size of a Hershey’s kiss and I was sampling at a rate of 1 sample every 10 minutes for 2 hours. One Hershey’s kiss has 22 calories so that’s 12 times 22 = 265 cals which is nothing so my estimate must be way off.