Getting Our Chocolate On

Abrooklynlife hit up The Chocolate Show this weekend, because what's better than consuming oodles of truffle samples at 11am on a Sunday morning? Turns out mid morning is a wee bit early to start consuming mass amounts of chocolate, but we managed to stuff ourselves anyway. The favorite items came from Bissinger's chocolate. The company's blueberry bark, a layer of semi-dried blueberries covered with dark chocolate gave a nice respite from the all-chocolate madness, as did the little squares of crunchy black sesame seeds, covered in chocolate--part of the company's "spa chocolate" line. Still, who's complaining about too much chocolate? Local favorites Jacques Torres and Payard  were there, along with the Japan-based Mary's Chocolate, which had an elaborate set-up including several 3-D chocolate paintings. Still, I never figured out where those crepes everyone was walking around with came from. Sigh.