Jared Bloch
GENEVA, Switzerland-Wine, wheels…and wet. In spite of the lousy weather accompanying the Geneva Caves Ouvertes last weekend, the excellent wine on offer and beautiful Geneva area scenery left me with a smile on my face. Here’s a sampling of what I saw. Enjoy.
Jared Bloch
Chocolate on tap at the International Salon des Choclatiers and of Chocolate
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Long before I ever moved to the land of milk and chocolate, I read Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and dreamt of endless supplies of the brown elixir.
Edible elegance
In fact, I caught more than one culprit dipping their spoon into a chocolate fountain on day two of the Salon International des Chocolatiers et du Chocolat at the Batiment de Forces Motrices, in Geneva.
Mmmm corriander chocolates!!!
Jared Bloch
Slicing the ham like an expert
Madrid, Spain & Geneva, Switzerland – The first time I heard a connoisseur describe a jamon serrano to me was akin to being introduced to an intimate friend. My friend, and the narrator of the culinary fantasy, was of course a Spaniard.
We were stranded in an airport, lingering in that interminable airport purgatorial space, when I asked her what made a jamon serrano so special.
Jared Bloch
In true North American fashion, I am accustomed to being served copious amounts of food when eating out, or at least I was until moving to Geneva. There is certainly no shortage of filling or “heavy” food in the Swiss diet; think fondu, frites, raclette, croissants, and of course chocolate. However, I still find it a rare occasion (close to never) that I am served a plate of food in Geneva that will leave me 100% satisfied and not craving just a bit more of dinner.
Menu for all tastes in St. Gallen
I have to say on balance, that I think of this more and more as a healthy phenomenon in and of itself. But there are days meant for eating soul food, I call those days weekends, when really I am concerned less with eating well, than with the notion of burying myself in a pile of shaved lamb meat.