My Seussical Life for 2003 November 18

(3) Tue Nov 18 2003 22:07 Divine Chocolate: I just got home from the most marvelous cooking class with a professional chef and pastry chef at the Merc. It was a chocolate class where we learned how to make ganache, a wonderfully rich chocolate sauce, chocolate mousse, truffles, and chocolate gingerbread souffle cakes. You should have seen people come alive, and become inebriated with pleasure as Chef Sula brought around a chunk of ganache and spoonful of the finest cocoa for each attendee to form his own truffle. Some had small chocolate mustaches from the cocoa, a woman with braces caked thick with the ganache, others with chocolate crumbs around the mouth. A high school aged boy a few seats down from me went all out, rolling the chocolate in his palm and fingertips. This scene reminded me of one in the French film, Babettes Feast, when all the townspeople are brought together at the end of the movie by Babettes feast, hence the title. Also like in Chocolat, which, come to think of it must be inspired by Babettes Feast.