After completing the insider's tour at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, the extraordinary Rockefeller farm in Pocantico Hills, NY, I was starving. Seeing the farm first hand was an awesome experience, which I will blog about later, but I've got sweeter things to discuss right now...
Waiting in line to order some sandwiches and salads from the Blue Hill Cafe, my eye caught the stunning branding of a line of chocolate out of Brooklyn - Mast Brothers Chocolate. The chocolate on its own caught my attention but when I looked closer at the display at a picture of the Mast Brothers themselves, Rick and Michael, it dawned on me that several years ago I worked with Michael on a movie! We've obviously both moved on to other things, me to photography and Michael to chocolate! How cool is that?
I didn't hesitate to pick up a bar of chocolate (I would have done so anyway) and the chocolate I selected was of the Fleur de Sel variety. Wonderful flakes of salt mixed in with 81% cacao deliciousness.... It reminded me of one of my all time favorite bars of chocolate, Mo's Bacon Bar by Vosges, bits of applewood smoked bacon mixed in with deep milk chocolate - don't knock it til you try it. Something about the salty and the sweet.... Vosges has it down and certainly those two Mast Brothers from Brooklyn do as well. It's chocolate with some serious style plus the goods to back it up. Keep your eye out for it and support a local chocolatier!
3 comments:
umm, chocolate *and* bacon *and* smoked salt? that's the umami bliss version of homer simpson's beer with the skittles in it. my life to this point has been a total waste.
Ha, it's funny, the first thing I thought when I saw your photo was "damn, love that packaging." The second was, "when can I come over and try the chocolate??" Sounds like an awesome find, Pappas!
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