The Diva That Ate New York // Chocolate & me
Divalicious Chocolate! specializes in chocolate comfort foods that make people happy. We use gourmet chocolate to make our hand-dipped Oreos, grahams, turtles and other treats so they taste even better than the ones you grew up eating. I like to describe my chocolate truffles as having a distinctly American style (read: big, bold flavors) as opposed to a European style (read: delicate). I am grateful and inspired by all the different chocolatiers out there, and I feature some of their products at my store, my chocolate tastings and events. It’s all good and I share the good stuff here.
In the land before time the diva was a surly old hash slinger at the River Cafe in Brooklyn. To document my attitude at the time, I recall at my interview being offered a job as a cocktail waitress on the outside deck, since the manager claimed he did not have room for me in the dining room. I looked him straight in the eye and said, “Thank you, but the day I have to rely on the weather to make tips or not is the day I throw myself in that mother-*$#%!*@ river!
Somehow I got the job anyway and at that time Dan Budd was the extremely talented and very hard working pastry chef. I think he left to be a pastry instructor at CIA right around the time I quit before I got fired (long story). I could barely look at CIA in the distant views yesterday during my harrowing (vertigo induced) stroll across the Hudson, but after we were back on terra firma and I calmed down, we zipped up route 9G to Dan’s cafe, Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, in Red Hook, New York for some medicinal pastries.
Posted by Jackie on Oct 12, 2009 – 10:21 AM
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Divalicious did double-time at the Culture Catch’s Midsummer Salon. I did a Divalicious eatertainment show pairing our tasty treats with songs and created our Divalicious Chocolate! Kid in a Chocolate Shop smorgasbord and make-your-own-goodie-bag spread, featuring dipped Oreos, grahams, fortune cookies, Nutter Butters, malted-milk balls, chocolate espresso beans, 72% dark chocolate hazelnuts, tiramisu almonds, cinnamon pecans, dark chocolate caramels,
milk & dark chocolate raisins, s’mores balls, hazelnut bark, s’mores bark, Oreo cookies & cream bark, caramel pecan bark, ginger bark, almond bark, honey-roasted peanut bark, strawberries & cream bark, “Kung Fu Fighting” Rockin’ Rocky Road, and “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” Rockin’ Rocky Road.
Posted by Jackie on Jul 27, 2009 – 5:12 PM
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