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"What I've Done for Chocolate" Richard Donnelly Valentine's Contest Winner

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February 14, 2006

The fun thing about chocolate is that in the end, all that matters is what you like, and with whom you share it. Most of us first knew bars that "really satisfied" and communally shared buckets of chocolate icing. While now you may be able to discern olive tones and derive satisfaction from a bar's informative snap, less studied chocolate memories don't lose their validity or emotional resonance. This is why we are proud to award a delectable assortment of world class Richard Donnelly chocolates to Hue Ayala, our "What I've Done for Chocolate" contest winner, and her M&Ms(R) memory. Keep reading!

I was a volunteer in a refugee camp in the Philippines some years back. All of the chocolate in tropical climates is packed with paraffin wax so it won't melt...it also is practically inedible! One day, my boss announced that he had to go back to "the States" to do some business or other. I had his wife sneak into his suitcase and put, at the very bottom, an envelope with a whole wad of one dollar bills (everyone I worked with had contributed one...and to those of us working for free that was big bucks) with a pleading note to buy us a huge bag of M and M's. Fortunately, he came back a hero with a mega-size bag which we ate in our typical fashion...put index finger into jar of peanut butter and then decorate it with M and M's before eating! The bag didn't last long, but the memory of it did.

Thanks to Hue, and to Richard Donnelly.

By Kyeann Sayer | February 14, 2006 in Chocolate | Permalink