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[rootofnewt]

i discovered that i am *not* out of chocolate, as i had feared. i have one more bar of Valor Milk Chocolate with Cacao Nibs, 38%. Oh, baby.

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[krasota.livejournal.com]

The hardware store doesn't carry any chocolate of exemplary value. Sorry, if it contains soy lecithin, they're cheating. Real chocolate uses cocoa butter instead of soy lecithin. No cutting corners allowed.

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[oberstgreup.livejournal.com]

Ack, I'd forgotten about your soy problem. I don't remember if Cote d'Or contains soy lecithin or not; Lindt and Droste, alas, both do, as it seems you're already aware.

Thank goodness for labeling laws, anyway. I suppose we need a chocolate purity law here in the States like the beer law in Germany. Doesn't Belgium or someplace in Europe have such a law, if it hasn't been superseded by EU regulations?

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[krasota.livejournal.com]

I haven't found any one country's chocolate to be safe. Belgian chocolate certainly isn't.

Whole Foods has started carrying their organic, imported Swiss chocolate bars again. These are soy-free. I am *so* happy. :) I'll still drive out to Nellysford to buy the Valor chocolate (it's incredibly good) and I want to special order some Cluizel from Chocosphere one of these days, but it's good to have in-town chocolate I don' t have to make from scratch. And Nellysford has the highly esteemed Blue Ridge Pig, home of incredibly good barbecue, or so boy claims. Being veg and allergic to the world, I don't eat it. He loves it, though. And if it keeps him happy, I'm happy.

(Okay, the proximity of the chocolate to the pig keeps me pretty happy, too.)

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[oberstgreup.livejournal.com]

Have you checked out Cote d'Or from Market Street Wine Shop? I was looking at sites on the web after mentioning this to you and it was Belgium I was thinking about - they have strict laws on what ingredients can go into anything and still have it labeled "chocolate". Of of them relates to cocoa content and another is that they rejected the EU standard that up to 5% of the total contents could be vegetable fat rather than cocoa butter, and I assume that "vegetable fat" is what the soy lecithin would be classified as. It may be that they make some things differently for export, though - some companies will do that.

Next time I'm over that way, because I'm sweet and self-sacrificing like this, I'll stop in and devour a bar of it and then check the label and tell you if soy lecithin (or anything else suspicious) is listed among the ingredients.

By the way, I don't think I introduced myself journal-wise. This is Bruce. *waves* I've been journal-surfing a lot lately because I'm going stir crazy working all hours.

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[krasota.livejournal.com]

Soy lecithin is classified as an emulsifier, not a vegetable fat. And it's used in minute amounts, yet sufficient to make me react.

I thought it might be you, but wasn't sure. Hi, Bruce!