a new chocolate drink
I've discovered a new drink.
Catherine and I were watching the movie Chocolat, in which Juliette Binoche serves chocolate to a bunch of uptight villagers and teaches them to live — a sort of dessert for Babette's Feast. Her pick for the peppery Judy Dench is a hot chocolate with ground chili peppers in it, which she says is a 2000-year-old recipe.
So, what else? We figured we'd try it. I promptly started mixing and experimenting. By the 3rd attempt I'd reached a pretty good balance, and we had a new favorite drink. It has precisely the same effect on us that Dench characterized: it peppers the mouth and gets into the throat and belly with an unexpected liveliness.
Catherine and I were watching the movie Chocolat, in which Juliette Binoche serves chocolate to a bunch of uptight villagers and teaches them to live — a sort of dessert for Babette's Feast. Her pick for the peppery Judy Dench is a hot chocolate with ground chili peppers in it, which she says is a 2000-year-old recipe.
So, what else? We figured we'd try it. I promptly started mixing and experimenting. By the 3rd attempt I'd reached a pretty good balance, and we had a new favorite drink. It has precisely the same effect on us that Dench characterized: it peppers the mouth and gets into the throat and belly with an unexpected liveliness.
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