TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY
“THIS GOOEY FLOURLESS CAKE WAS INSPIRED BY ‘CHOCOLATE WITH RUM’, A RECIPE IN SALVADOR DALI’S COOKBOOK LES DINERS DE GALA.”
CHOCOLATE. NO OTHER food has the same beguiling, delicious pull on our senses. Almost magically, and alone among the things we eat, chocolate melts at around body temperature, flooding our mouth with voluptuous sweetness, an array of flavours and a whisper of bitterness as soon as we place it on our tongue. Its chemistry lights up the pleasure centres in our brain, energises us and sates our hunger. But chocolate is more than just an edible delight.
Chocolate is nostalgia. A simple bite into a favourite bar can carry us back to our first childhood treat, that sweet reward for good behaviour, or the comforting snack when we were sad.
Each bite of chocolate is imbued in history and flavoured with its epic journey over millennia, from the rainforests of the Amazon, where the ancients first discovered how to
