This is an invitation to discover the city: Walk until you drop
Monday, March 22, 2010
Barcelona Bar: an exotic chocolate made in the USA
In the USA I came across a chocolate bar called Barcelona Bar and it got my attention. It is made with hickory smoked almonds, sea salt and deep milk chocolate and it has a unique taste. It is one of the exotic chocolate bars produced by Vosges Haut-Chocolat, a company funded by a young American lady with the concept "Travel the world through chocolate". Her name is Katrina and she followed her food studies traveling the world. She started with Spain, where she worked with the Adrià brothers. Vosges produces many other interesting types of chocolate that come in beautiful presentations.
Check Katrina´s Blog for recipes, stories and beautiful pictures. She has just posted a recipe mixing hot chorizo and melted chocolate!!!. Kind of weird for Spanish people. If you try it, let us know. http://www.peaceloveandchocolate.com/
The Vosges boutique in New York is located in the SoHo (check the website for other sale points) 132 Spring Street (between Greene & Wooster)
Shopping is one of the pleasures of foreign travel and this blog will help you discover Barcelona through shopping. The things we buy when we travel can bring us fun and pleasure, help us grow, create good memories, and share special moments later on. In Barcelona, shopping districts are knitted in the fabric of the city and some of them, made of narrow streets with small shops -where tourists and locals mingle- are a very distinctive trait of our Mediterranean culture. Come and enjoy!!
I am Spanish and, although I wasn´t born in Barcelona, this is the city where I have lived most of my life. For the last twenty years I have done a lot of international travel mostly for work and, being back to Barcelona after five years of living abroad, I felt like sharing a perspective to help others discover the city through shopping. This is a blog intended mainly for travelers and foreigners which is why I have chosen to write it in English. Nevertheless, everybody is invited to participate, and comments in French, Italian or Portuguese and, of course, Spanish and Catalan are also welcome.
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