Word: michels
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...ways to set their palates apart from those of the masses. Let them eat Milky Ways and M&M's. The true elite prefer dark chocolate, these days known as pure dark or grand cru or vintage or whatever other nomenclature specialty companies such as Sharffen Berger, E. Guittard, Michel Cluizel or Chocolove dream up. What's in a name, you ask? According to a recent survey by the National Confectioners Association, nearly 30% of consumers now prefer dark chocolate to other varieties...
...Even without an educated palate, I can tell the difference between a 72% Madagascar and a 72% Venezuelan bean," sniffs Pierrick Chouard, owner of the American subsidiary of Michel Cluizel, a French chocolatier that puts a genealogy of its cocoa beans inside its gift boxes. In the U.S., the Colorado-based Chocolove takes its cue from another prestige consumable and sells a chocolate humidor, a cedar-lined box that protects the candy from the elements. Its president, Timothy Moley, can tell "whether or not the beans were ripe, whether they were fermented and cured properly and how long...
...what the right thing is. We scream at each other, trying to figure it out. At worst, the theater of moral dilemma makes America sound like a college dormitory at 11 p.m., with 200 million freshmen and sophomores haggling over the meaning of life. At best, we are imitating Michel de Montaigne...
Other connections between the text and the art are more obscure. Most modern-day viewers have difficulty seeing the anti-Semitic overtones that Katz points out in Michel Wohlgemut's drawing of Christ's circumcision, as shown by a look at the puzzled comments left by visitors. Likewise, the fact that Mary's Assumption into heaven is not part of Protestant belief says little about Pedro Gonzalez Berruguete's depiction of her ascent...
...quite imagine how the project got off the ground; who would fund an idiosyncratic collaboration between untested Nouvelle Vague director Jacques Demy and French jazz composer Michel Legrand? Chalk it up to the experimental spirit of the '60s or the audacious spirit of the French New Wave. But what has emerged is unlike any other dated document of the time. It's astonishing how fresh it remains. It's like a fantastic kiss--it never gets old. Even the first time I watched the movie (with a smile of such shocking wideness that my roommates thought I'd gotten married...