Chocolate is a taste that only grows sweeter as you age. You move beyond the simple Hersey bar of your youth and realize that all chocolate is not created equal. You learn there’s more than just dark chocolate or milk chocolate or chocolate with nuts or chocolate with caramel. Chocolate is an art – a passion.
For those with a passion for chocolate, there are shops such as Chocolat Moderne in New York City.
Owner Joan Coukos, a native New Yorker, studied chocolate and confectionery arts with a coterie of world-class French, Belgian, American and Swiss chocolatiers in NY and at The World Pastry Forum in Las Vegas. She has meticulously honed her craft, making Chocolat Moderne one of the finest chocolate shops in the world.
Coukos uses the highest quality ingredients to make a variety of chocolates and fillings, including dark chocolate, pistachios, hazelnuts, European style butter, cocoa butter, full cream, granulated pure cane and specialized confectionery sugars, fruit purées, fruit preserves, fresh squeezed citrus juices and zest, milk chocolate, white chocolate, fresh milk, caramelized puffed rice, honey, premium liqueurs, essential oils, teas and spices. Nothing is artificial.
The results are stupendous – with a wide range of items that will leave you wanting more.
You can get the amazing chocolates of Chocolat Moderne at their store in NYC, or online.