Word: valrhona
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...dessert, you must order the Flourless Chocolate Torte ($5.50), spiced with cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, pepper, saffron, nutmeg and star anise, and accompanied by rich Valrhona chocolate sauce and dried fruit compote. The Crème Brulée ($5.50) is less enticing, too eggy, and not as creamy as it should be, with an incorrect proportion of custard to bruleed sugar. A dense thimbleful of Turkish Coffee ($2.00), afloat with whole pods of green cardamom, is a fine end to the meal...
...tank of gas," says public relations director Susan Ellefson.) The late-1990s boom is a time of less conspicuous, if no less expensive, consumption, when Donald Trump has morphed from poster boy for ostentation to tax-the-rich political populist, when the wealthy want to have their Valrhona chocolate cake and feel karmically good about it too. Many of the well-heeled are thus laying out the lobster medallions in opulent but low-key celebrations at home. That's been a boon for upscale catering services like Ridgewells in Washington. Says owner Susan Lacz: "We're seeing a lot more...