grateful (COUNT=1319)

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A few European snacks as a follow up to the Asian snack entry

i++ bahlsen dark chocolate afrika (German)
i++ trancetto cacao (Italian)
i++ whole wheat paris toast (French)

But of course the above are best paired with beverages invented in China five thousand years ago 🙂

i++ matcha
i++ earl grey: According to one legend, a grateful Chinese mandarin whose son was rescued from drowning by one of Lord Grey’s men first presented the blend to the Earl in 1803

chocolate & miso (COUNT=1267)

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i++ soma old school (picture above)

i++ dick taylor wild harvest alto beni

i++ niku miso: “I like to start my Niku Miso by caramelizing aromatics like shiitake mushrooms, scallions and ginger”

(dreaming about some kinda chocolate miso meat sauce)

norm choc

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Him: I want to eat chocolate.
Me: There are six bars on the kitchen counter.
Him: I don’t want to eat the weird stuff you buy.
Me: This one looks too normal. You must have bought it.

grateful (COUNT=1218)

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• Amazing smoked cocoa butter raaka in Brooklyn
• Fig & lemon zest skyr
• Rahier smoked salmon quiche
• Hanging with Audrey

count 26: “L’enfance trouve son paradis dans l’instant. Elle ne demande pas du bonheur. Elle est le bonheur” = “Childhood finds paradise in the moment. It does not demand happiness. It is happiness.”

BRKLYN (count=1203)

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successfully met my coffee x2 choco x2 target …

• 10 am coffee run @ bitter sweet
• 10:10 meetup with Ah-Dur + Tania @ Brooklyn Tabernacle
• followed by lunch @ sotto casa (where Tania told me her friend lives on the same street as Ethan Hawke in Boerem Hill)
• afternoon coffee run @ cafe pedlar
• afternoon greeting card run @ papel
• wandering around Red Hook West (picture above): In 1990 Life magazine named Red Hook as one of the worst neighborhoods in the United States and as the crack capital of America
• super cute @ foxy & winston
• afternoon chocolate run @ cacao prieto
• another chocolate run @ raaka
• admiring yuko zhimizu @ DUMBO

what i got at greene grape (count=1195)

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shop shop @ 8 am on saturday …

• instead of white kimchi, I decided to try kimchi kale
• potter’s apple wood smoked crackers OMG
• white moustache kiss (instead of sour cherry)
• marinated giant white beans
• extra paprika-y cauliflower
• nathan miller pretzel + cherry 55% buttermilk chocolate

wa ichigo

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Jess re-gifted me wa ichigo chocolate so I had to look up wa ichigo (i.e. Japanese strawberries)

1st　Tochigi Prefecture（Known for “Tochiotome” ）
2nd　Fukuoka Prefecture（Known for “Amaou”）
3rd　Kumamoto Prefecture（Known for “Hinoshizuku”）
4th　Nagasaki Prefecture（Known for “Sachinoka”）
5th　Shizuoka Prefecture (Known for “Beni Hoppe”）