The one extra day that we give ourselves every four years turned out to be packed with a couple of curious surprises, pleasantly curious I must say.
So I'm putting the finishing touches on an article about pastry chefs in Rhode Island that I'm writing for Primetime magazine. I asked Chef Joe Hafner of Gracie's if he had any suggestions for me and he gave me a couple of good leads; indeed he was kind enough to make a call to Michele De Luca-Verley, an incredible chocolatier who runs her business out of her home in Portsmouth, RI.
I called Michele and arranged to come by to chat and take some photos of her at work.
After spending an hour or so with her it was clear that self-taught Michelle has grown her business through the force of her gentle personality and the quality of her chocolate: her truffles are fantastic and her smile contagious. Here are just a few of the photos I took yesterday:
A curious twist came when that evening we watched our latest movie from NetFlix -- Chocolat!
Is that just too cool or what?
And to top it all off we had a delicious pan-seared skirt steak in a red wine sauce -- thanks Chef Joe!
Ciao for now,
Steve
2 comments:
incredible chocolatier who runs her business out of her home in Portsmouth, RI.....
I'd be a bit careful about publishing that she works out of her house... Many people (myself included and places like Pastiche, Scrupmtions etc. ) did start off by baking out of our own homes, but technically it's not allowed. Rhode Island will not certify a home based kitchen unless it's separate and only used for the business. I know that I was very careful about the advertising/promotion that I did incase that fact was brought to someone in the state's attention. I don't know what her set up is and maybe she does have a certified kitchen... but air on the side of caution when mentioning that....
Sinfully,
Jennifer Luxmoore
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Garrison Confections! It couldn't be that you missed Andrew Shotts amazing chocolates?!
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