On the Chocolate Trail

Shavuot’s dairy customs celebrating the revelation of Torah at Mt. Sinai beckon me towards milk chocolate. As Janna Gur, Chief Editor of Israel’s Al Hashulchan–The Israeli Gastronomic Monthly explained to me in a phone conversation, Israelis love chocolate and have a distinct preference for milk chocolate. The Elite brand developed several favorites in the milky

The hot chocolate I tasted in December 2009 in Israel struck me as pretty flavorless.  At Nona’s lovely chocolate boutique near the King David and YMCA in Jerusalem, the melted marzipan addition compensated for the chocolate deficit.  That, in a proudly French style chocolate purveyor using mostly Valhrona chocolate, rather than the generally Israeli preferred