Price: $3.79-$3.99 in Boston. Composition: 54% Dark Chocolate. Region: America. Manufacturer Notes: “This dark African blend is just right: creamy, sweet, fruity, and floral.” For a mid-range gourmet candy bar, this has to be one of the best-looking bars on the market. It comes in 8 even, very solid squares that break apart...
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Composition: 40-42% Milk Chocolate. Region of Production: USA. Price: 100g for about $7. The presentation here is, for the most part, what I’d expect from Burdick’s – clean and sleek, with a very easy snap to the pieces. This bar, however, came without a seal, so that it was technically open in the inside wrapper—a...
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Cuisine: Southern. Specialty: Shrimp ’n Grits, Lemon Chess Pie, Pecan Pie, Cornbread. Location: 1990 M Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20036. Price: At Lunch, Entrees run from $16-$18.50, Appetizers $11-$13, Dessert $10. Whenever I’m in the mood for a feast, there’s always one type of cuisine I can reliably turn to:...
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Composition: Peppermint Candy Cane, 62% Dark Chocolate. Region of Production: USA. Price: $7.50 from Vosges’ site. The presentation is a mixed bag. While I really enjoy the packaging, which features very Christmas-y strands of peppermint candy cane all over, the bar has less polish than most. The candy cane is minced very finely...
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Cuisine: Eclectic; Chocolate. Specialty: Aztec Hot Chocolate. Location: 484 Broome Street, New York, NY 10013-2253. Price: $6/$8/$9 for Small/Medium/Large Hot Chocolate. While in NYC, I had my fair share of decent chocolate treats. I could not, however, seem to find a great hot chocolate. I had even gone to Jacques Torres, the...
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It was the night of the State of the Union, and what a better way to celebrate than with the all-American activity of beer drinking? So, in anticipation of the President’s speech, and in the spirit of US solidarity, Harvard Law’s Beeritas put together a tasting from across the nation, finally bringing together the feuding...
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Composition: 45% Deep Chocolate, African Rooibos Tea, Dried Michigan Cherries. Region of Production: USA. Price: About $7-$8 for 3 oz./85g. The presentation of the Cherry Rooibos Bar is quite a bit better than what I’m used to from Vosges. Often, I’ve gotten chocolates semi-melted, with chocolate bloom all across the bar....
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Cuisine: Gastropub/Slow Fast Food Burger. Location: Numerous Locations in Chicago, but the original is at 430 N. Michigan Ave. Price: $2.85 for a cheeseburger. No menu item exceeds $6. It was St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago, and I was in the mood to go to some traditional Irish pubs for a good beer and a burger, i.e. some real...
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Composition: 54% Chocolate, Raspberry Ganache. Region of Production: USA. Price: $3.80 for 92g. The presentation is rather nice, though it could be improved. Again, Lake Champlain packages its bars in simple paper wrappers of different colors, with almost no decoration, but I actually don’t mind the simplicity of the packaging....
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Cuisine: Pizza. Specialty: Deep Dish Pizza/Chicago-Style Pizza. Location: All Throughout Chicago. Price: $19.25-$29.25 for a large stuffed pizza. I’d finally arrived at the last of Chicago’s deep dish triumvirate, Giordano’s. I had already trekked through the casual sports bar-ish Lou Malnati’s with its amazingly cheesy...
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