Like weather for chocolate

This is ridiculous. On Friday, it was sunny and 17°C. Today, it's -1°C and the air is thick with snow. I'd just switched from boots to new shoes; they were never meant to see snow, but it turns out that they leave cool tread-marks:

Yes, this is the kind of high-quality journalism you've come to expect from this page. So, everything's covered in snow. Again.

Very pretty, Nature, but really. It's well past time for this.

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This was in Saturday's Globe and Mail:

Talk of the Town
By Tralee Pearce
Saturday, March 6, 2004 - Page M7

JS BONBONS. 811 Queen St. W. (at Niagara Street), Tue. to Sat., 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sun., 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., 416-703-7731, http://www.jsbonbons.com. At the new JS Bonbons shop, which opened yesterday, owner Jenn Stone has the juice-bar trend licked. She's installed a hot-chocolate bar, serving six brews that'll knock any mochafrappa thingie you're currently drinking on its ear. Ask for one of her six best-selling truffle flavours -- chocolate and chai, lavender, bittersweet, lemon thyme, salted caramel and gianduja (hazelnut) -- and she'll pour some ganache of that flavour into a cup, add steamed milk, foam and chocolate shavings. Perfect for slurping and shopping. "Queen Street is such a great wandering street, I wanted to offer another option," says Ms. Stone. In the little gem of a spot that used to house the Middle Eastern food shop Arabesque (which is now at Gladstone and College), Ms. Stone also sells her signature truffles and treats, handmade at her Dupont Street location for the anti-Atkins crowd. [Emphasis mine]

I couldn't not go by today after climbing. The verdict? The bittersweet is fantastic; highly recommended. The white chocolate with pink peppercorns bark was also great.

Posted by madhava at March 7, 2004 06:53 PM