I had such fun with the first chocolate tasting we held, and was so fortunate to have the talents and insights of some wonderfully imaginative and passionate chocolate loving friends – that I was eager to do it again.

This time however, the focus is on milk chocolate.  Lately, milk chocolate has gotten a bad rap, as everything from insipid to kid stuff to déclassé.

While it is undeniable that some milk chocolates are all of those things, I feel duty bound to stand up for the substance that was, in my childhood, the taste of heaven. [Read more…]