Friday, January 27th 2012

Today we did our daily chocolate tasting, cheese tasting, and 

Our daily chocolate tasting of the best of the Varietals. Amedei Porcelana 70%, Amedei Chuao 70%, Amedei 9 75%.

Amedei Porcelana : subtle chocolate smell, good snap, wonderful bite but coffee/ burnt after taste. Nutty.

Amedei Chuao: strong chocolaty, earthy smell, good snap, very astringent, light and smooth chocolate taste. Very different from the Porcelana. 

Amedei 9: Chocolate, earthy smell, good snap, nice initial chocolate taste, kinda reminds me of a better version of Hershey's chocolate. 

We were also given chocolate  covered coffee beans I don't think I've ever had these before, but they're pretty good. It's like chocolate covered caramels. I like the crunchy consistency, but I can do with out the small grinds getting stuck between my teeth. 

The international team talked about their performance yesterday. We all thought they did a great job.

Tom and Callie gave a presentation on British food They did a really good job! I loved Tom's accent. I really didn't know much about British food  before this presentation. I'm excited to try British food at a restaurant. 

Josh and Gaston did a presentation on wild game. It was really interesting. I was excited to get to taste wild game. The venison had a mild gamey taste. When we compared it to beef, I liked venison a lot better than the beef. The rabbit meat tasted a lot like chicken. It's alright tasting, very flavorful. When we compared the flavor to chicken, it was about the same. The duck meat is very gamey, I really liked that about it. I will definitely order wild game at a restaurant if I ever get


Next, there was a presentation on risotto I didn't know that risotto was such a debated and popular dish. I didn't know it came originally from India, but made it's way to America from Italy. I loved the fact that they prepared risotto for the class. The desert risotto was very interesting sweet with salty, and the Parmesan risotto was good and cheesey. 



Next we did our final cheese tasting.

  Taleggio:smells like spoiled milk, taste really tangy and like spoiled milk, very soft mouth feel, this would probably be good with wine or fruits.

 Morbier Raw Milk: smells musky and buttery, a really tangy like cheddar, creamy mouth feel, 


 Chimay: nice subtle smell, chemically salty taste, very pungent, tangy.

I really didn't like these cheeses. Gouda was by far my favorite cheese that we tasted.