The art of the French chocolatier peaks at Easter
Again and again I find myself thinking of this cri de coeur expressed by Madame de Sévigné (1626 – 1696) in one of her numerous letters to her daughter who lived in a fairy-tale château in the village of Grignan, not far from my much more humble home. I often wonder how anyone can survive the trials and tribulations of daily life without an occasional bite of chocolate – but in the weeks leading up to Easter this rhetorical question moves into the realm of an existential crisis. The ar...
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