Okay – this wasn’t my idea. I am not recommending this, as I am not a health professional and as such do not know if this really does make worlds collide. Take this all with a grain of salt or a dah of seasoning. Discussing Belgian chocolatier Dominique Persoone’s recent flavor combinations, Miriam Wolf of Chow writes:
The bad boy of confectionary seems to have made an impression on Paris Chocolate Show-goers with his chocolates flavored with cauliflower and his…wait for it…chocolate biscuits encrusted with chicken skin. Take that, you bacon-candy addicts.
Chicken and chocolate. If you have gone that far, why not try turkey?
What do you think – are worlds colliding too much, bridging the gap between savory and sweet?
1:24 am on December 18th, 2008
I love chocolate and chicken! I didn’t like mole’ at first, my affair started with the chicken pieces at Wendy’s dipped in the chocolate frosty! I order them both because they compliment each other, so why not marry them even before they reach my pie hole? Now mole’ is good, too. I like a smooth mole’. Sometimes it’s gritty for some reason, and until I figure out why, I don’t like the gritty stuff.
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