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From: "Adam Churvis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: Lindt chocolate
> > mmmm....batches of handmade Grand Marnier, Chambord, Amaretto, and
Cassis
> truffles...
> >
> > methinks there's going to be some very lucky students in a CF training
> class in the very near future : )
>
> Maybe at the very end of a day. These things are like drugs: first you
> relax and kind of melt, then you get frisky, then you get sleepy. I don't
> need to be teaching how to leverage persistent components while that's
going
> on. :)
>
> Chocolate is arguably the most complex flavor on earth, consisting of a
huge
> number of distinct flavor elements. Some of these elements are
> alcohol-soluble, so if you handle your liqueur-infused ganache (the creamy
> center mixture) correctly and let the finished truffle age a little, you
end
> up with a unique chocolate sensation that can't be reproduced in any other
> way.
>
> Most truffles are commercially manufactured in "wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am"
> fashion, and don't even deserve to be called truffles. If you've tasted
> experienced a truffle that was handcrafted by a master trufflemaker from
> hand-tempered chocolate and the very freshest ingredients (sweet butter
from
> the cream of that morning's milking, right out of the churn; raspberries
> hand-picked that very day; eggs from that day's lay; and fresh chocolate
> from a recent run), then you know exactly what I mean.
>
> To me, truffles are the very highest form of chocolate, so I pursue it. I
> may never have the skill of a master trufflemaker, but that won't stop me
> from trying. Aim for the very highest form in everything you do, I say.
>
> On the other hand, I also used to make small jars of just the ganache for
> friends and labeled it "Sex Food," so I guess sometimes it's fun to just
> mess around. :)
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Adam Phillip Churvis
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