Showing posts with label chocolate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chocolate. Show all posts

Thursday, April 24, 2008

From the clutches of chocolate to the canals of Ghent


You can only visit so many artisanal chocolatiers; indulge in their dark, milk and white chocolate truffles, marrons glacés, caramels, and mendiants before you simply must allow your insulin to restore itself to a normal state.

Our recess from cocoa butter ganache fillings would be replaced with apple tartins and waffles during a daytrip to Ghent, Belgium. Hardly a respite from sugar, but we concluded the details weren't worth balking about.

Lighter and brighter than Brussels, Ghent-St. Pieters features canals, meandering medieval streets and a disturbing lobster lady advertising one of Ghent's many bank-side restaurants in which to part with your Euro. There's also a wide range of languages you can speak to order your Belgian waffle: Flemish, French, English or German.

Ik zou van een wafel, tevreden houden (I'd like a waffle, please)
Supplémentaire chantilly, svp (extra whipped cream, please)
Quickly—I beg of you! (Rapidement—je prie de toi!)
Ich benötige ein Haar jetzt (I need a nap now)


Saturday, March 29, 2008

Urban bon mot: twitterpated

When Bunny Foo Foo thought about Brussels, the rush of warm, fuzzy, excited sensations that filled Foo made her realize she was completely twitterpated with Belgian chocolate.


twitterpated: to be completely enamored with someone or something (such as chocolate of a certain quality. Or, better yet—a man of a certain quality bearing chocolate).