Last weekend was an epic event here in Italy, no in Europe...the annual euro-chocolate fest! Sara and I made the train trip to Perugia to visit our friend Vanessa, but more importantly to stuff our faces with chocolate.
Friday night after we arrived we went to an amazing dinner at a restaurant appropriately named "Food lost in time". It was a four hour mail hand prepared by two women in a kitchen no larger than 5 feet by five feet. We had multiple litres of wine, appetizers that included baked eggplant, mozzarella balls, and stuffed mushrooms. This was followed by spinach gnocchi and walnut Alfredo. We completed our meal with some kind of pastry type thing containing nutella. The most surprising thing about it was that the total came to about 10 euro per person!
After dinner Sara and I were introduced to the Perugia night life, which apparently happens every night since it is such a small town and there is not much to wake up for. We dragged our friends out of the bar at about three am, only to have them tell us that was the earliest they had left all week!
The next day was chocolate time! The streets were filled with booths of every kind of chocolate, truffle, and melted concoction you can imagine. They even had shaved chocolate kebabs, hot chocolate-nutella, and never before revealed Lindt chocolate bar flavors (caramel sea-salt was my favorite). It was packed with people, all amped up on chocolate and sugar, but just to see so much chocolate in one place was well worth it! Especially with all the samples they had-I even got a Milka cell phone holder, unfortunately it is not edible.
I was the lucky recipient of several of Sarah's chocolate samples. We arrived in Florence about an hour before Sarah got off the train from the Perugia chocolate festival. There was even a chocolate bar with the map of the town on it!! One would think Sarah would be tired of Nutella by now.....but no, she is not!!!!
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