Via Rob Diamond:

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The Way We Eat: The Sweet-Tooth Fairy

Sure you love chocolate. But do you store dated bars in your cellar and wake up at 5 in order to taste them with a fresh palate? Do you wear custom-made dresses with pockets in the front so you can nibble during meetings? Did Pierre Hermé name five cocoa-based confections after you? Then sorry, you’ve got nothing on Chloé Doutre-Roussel.

In chocolate circles – yes, they exist – the twinkly Frenchwoman is a goddess, its Bella Abzug, Julia Child and Isabelle Huppert foil-wrapped into one. A tireless enthusiast for the stuff (what’s known in France as a chocodépendante), the former agronomist has parlayed her passion into a very sweet career.

[…] For if Doutre-Roussel has her way, those 70 percent Lindt bars that we smugly keep in our desk drawers are going to taste to us like sweetened crayons. Soon we’ll be seeking small-production chocolate whose aromas of mushrooms, wood, jasmine and leather can linger on the tongue for up to five minutes.

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