The Curious Chocolatier Dark Chocolate With Blueberries

It’s been quite some time since I’ve reviewed a chocolate from my favourite one-woman local chocolate company, The Curious Chocolatier. The bar below is actually rather special, for two reasons. The first reason is that it’s not one of the standard, ever-present chocolates of The Curious Chocolatier line-up, but a seasonal (and hard-to-find) offering produced late [...]

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The Curious Chocolatier Holiday Spice Milk Chocolate with Pecans and Cranberries

When you were a child, were you ever taken to a store that sold expensive items yet didn’t bother to protect them behind, say, glass? Perhaps it was a music shop where guitars and flutes and bongos stood out like playmates in the schoolyard, beckoning you to touch them with your Chupa Chups-holding hands? Or [...]

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The Curious Chocolatier Pistachio and Sea Salt in Dark Chocolate

A big thanks to everyone for the lovely comments and congratulations regarding my PhD announcement! It’s really nice to have your support When I was house-sitting a few months ago, I went out for dinner with three lovely ladies. One of these lovely ladies (in the strictly non-Les Miserables sense) was L-Izzle, who you may recognize [...]

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The Curious Chocolatier Dark Chocolate with Apricot and Rosemary

I’ve never thought of myself as particularly patriotic. This is not to say that I don’t like being Australian, because I do. It’s just that I’m not comfortable with gallivanting around proclaiming that Australian-ness is superior to all other kinds of Nationality-ness simply because, well, I’m Australian and therefore “Australia Is The World”. However, there have [...]

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