bittersweet chocolate

“We ordered a bottle of Pinot Noir and then had a terrific meal, highlighted by a black-bean-and-goat-cheese pate that we shared; her arctic char, my au poivre rib eye; and bittersweet chocolate praline crumble for two.”

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“Those cookie-baking Mormon mothers who surrounded us might not have had a conscious thought in their heads that wasn’t tranquilized away by the largely Mormon-owned pharmaceutical companies, but they did possess the good sense and the incredible awareness to add a bittersweet chocolate chip or two, and crushed pecans, and some peanut butter to the basic vanilla cookie batter.”

Simon & Schuster: Roseanne Archy