The Ritual Chocolate Madagascar bar is a long and thin 75% bar. It is broken up into little rectangles that are around two to three bites a piece. The most prominent flavor notes it has are fruity in nature. No exact fruit, but more the essence of a tangy sweetness. This taste profile is not…
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The Dandelion Chocolate Madagascar bar is 70% and sourced from Ambanja, Madagascar, as it says clearly on the packaging. Each square of the bar has four little wavy lines on it, which you can see from the above and below pictures. The portion sizes are pretty perfect. And for the flavor: fruity and sharp. Certainly…
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The Domori Guasare is a small chocolate bar sectioned up into little logo’d squares for consumption. The flavor is a wonderful mixture of sweet and salty. There is are slight nutty notes that comes in with fruity notes. The mixture creates a complex flavor that is quite good. I would say it had more of…
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The Neal’s Yard Dairy Stilton is a creamy blue cheese. The typical tang of blue is subdued in favor of a smoother, richer flavor. The tang does exist, however, but merely as an after note. Although the consistency of the body is sticky and crumbly, it holds up to being cut better than some other…
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The Quadrello Di Buffala is a buffalo’s milk cheese. The body of the cheese is smooth and rich. Thick and almost creamy. Solid throughout, but it has a ‘gel’ like consistency. Sort of sticky. Slightly hard to cut, but the slices that I was able to carve out were fine to eat and held together…
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Tassos Fig Marmalade comes in a large jar. The orangey fig marmalade fills it to the brink. There is a nice tag shown above that explains what it is and the ingredients. Below is what it looks like served. The consistency of this spread is more akin to a loose jelly than a thick fruit…
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The Abbaye de Belloc Pyrenees is a sheep’s cheese with faint earthy tones. It has a Swiss Cheese-like texture, neither hard nor considerably soft. Pliable and easy to bite into. The mushroom notes fade in slowly and come delicately. This flavor is not overpowering in any sense. Very mild in presentation. The Abbaye de Belloc Pyrenees is a difficult…
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The Cyprus Grove Humboldt Fog is a veined goat cheese. As you can see from the pictures, it is a typical crumbly goat cheese. Not typical is the cream that separates the cheese and the rind. This substance is a honey-like cream, for lack of a better term, that binds the fluffy body with the tender…
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The Frisian Farms Gouda is a flaky, partially aged gouda. It is rife with partial amounts of crystals and has a dry body. There is not much special about it, aside from its exceptionally brittle texture. It is tasty and goes quite well with ripe peaches. Anything sweet, really.…
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These Haralson apples were fresh from the tree. I got them at an apple orchard. Each one looked a little different. Some were light green and others were a rich velvet red. They were very beautiful. But that is just aesthetics. What about their taste? Well, Haralson apples are known for being baking apples, and…
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