<p>I’m sitting here enjoying a box of Jacques Torres chocolates. The port wine is particularly scrumptious. So sorry you aren’t all here to share.</p>
<p>My son who’s interested in food/cooking/possibly cooking school LOVES Jacques Torres. We met him at a Chocolate Expo in NYC a few years ago, and we also visited his shop in Brooklyn. I won’t tell my son about your post-he’d be too envious.</p>
<p>Want to start a chocolate war?</p>
<p>The very best chocolates I’ve ever had are from Switzerland: Teuscher. If you had said you had a box of Teuscher’s, I’d have been really envious.</p>
<p>Not long ago I was given a box of Teuscher champagne truffles (I work near the NY Store) and after I ate the entire box (you read that right), I vomited for hours. Can’t stand the things now.</p>
<p>Didn’t you read the directions? (These are found in “Why Frenchwomen Don’t Get Fat”) You’re not supposed to eat the whole box at once. I find the champagne truffles very rich myself, but there are so many other choices.</p>
<p>Where is chocoholic (the CC member) when you need her??? :D</p>
<p>I don’t know about any of these fancy chocolates, but I am a fan of those Lindt “Lindor truffles.” My father got an enormous containter of them last Christmas from a client–it was about 1.5 times the size of one of those blow up globes (best way I can think of to describe the size!) filled with chocolates. :D</p>
<p>Chocolate gives me pimples, so brag away! :)</p>
<p>Well I am jealous! Since I am still at work the closest I can come to that is a bag of M&Ms or a Snickers bar…and a bottle of OJ!!! But I am certainly enjoying the vision this brings to mind. The power of suggestion is sometimes as good it gets…</p>
<p>My older son has introduced me to Teuscher truffles, and usually gives me a box for my birthday and Mother’s Day. I’m happy to see that he’s learned something valuable in college!</p>
<p>Actually, one thing I miss from California is See’s candy. They are still among my favorites.</p>
<p><em>knock knock</em> That’s me…at YOUR DOOR. Hand 'em over! ;)</p>
<p>Move Over Everyone------------I’m A-coming</p>
<p>Mozart Balls…yum. Both of my kids were in Vienna within about 6 months of each other…and I got Mozart Balls from both…they are the best.</p>
<p>Thumper, I did not know you love the Mozart balls. I will bring you some next time I go or ask D to bring them if she comes here. They are buyable here, but not very fresh. The marzipan filling is not to her liking, which has made me go off of them a bit, too. I do like the Lindor balls, too, and the Duty Free shops are great to buy that kind of thing. Yum.</p>
<p>Now were is this Jacques Torres store? Thumper and I have a rendezvous planned in NYC soon, and we can check it out!</p>
<p>DS also bought us candy bars from Vienna…but we never got to taste them. MIL’s stupid dog ate them when he was visiting her in early December that year. I thought DS was going to kill the dog. DS had carted and cared for those candy bars for several months so he could put them in our stockings and in one swell swoop, that dog ate them. I never did find out what kind they were. The dog at the wrappers too.</p>
<p>Bpss… …</p>
<p>I am a cheap chocolate date, because I still like those Ritter sport bars pretty well. THey are much cheaper and better bought in Europe, though. Toberone is pretty good, too. Hand-made Belgium and Luxembourg chocolate is mighty fine, too… I am discriminatingly greedy about all of it!</p>
<p>All the chocolate you have mentioned, including See’s and Lindt and Toblerone, is merely adequate, an acceptable substitute to tide one over, a serviceable suggestion of what chocolate can and should be. To know true chocolate nirvana, to understand the definition of exquisite, you must eat a Teuscher chocolate. I would avoid open warfare and include this upstart Torres, but I’m not familiar with his wares. Does he have any shops in California?</p>
<p>Ok, so I’m guessing that Godiva is terribly overrated.</p>
<p>I’m not saying Godiva isn’t good. It’s fine, though maybe a little heavy. It’s just that Teuscher, and perhaps a very few others, exist in another chocolate universe.</p>