I'm baaack! San Diego was a blast. The weather was fantastic, the food was good, and I had lots of fun in the sun.
I'm heading to Sydney in a few days, so I'll try really hard to squeeze in a post or two about my food adventures in San Diego in between now and when I leave.
My sister-in-law just got back from her trip to Vancouver, and of course, brought back some edible goodies for me. This time, she brought me Cocoa Nymph chocolate.
Cocoa Nymph is a local Vancouver chocolaterie that was started by former civil servant, Rachel Sawatzky. She started out by making chocolates for her co-workers as a hobby. They enjoyed them so much, that, she was encouraged to sell her cocoa delights. Well...the rest is history. You can watch a great video on Rachel's inspirations, and her story on how she got started on the Cocoa Nymph home page.
Cocoa Nymph carries a range of chocolates and confections including truffles, marshmallows, toffee, and candied pecans. They have a great shopping section on their website where you can pick and choose your personalized box of individual chocolates, and then have it effortlessly shipped to your door.
I received two chocolate bars: Urban Nymph and Sea Nymph
Urban Nymph is a 45% deep milk chocolate bar with coffee and caramelized cocoa nibs. This was my favorite of the two. There was a nice strong coffee aroma throughout the bar, and the cocoa nibs were fun to eat. You can taste the love in this chocolate bar.
The Sea Nymph bar is 64% dark chocolate with fleur de sel and bits of Cocoa Nymph's English toffee. Of the salt and toffee, I expected the toffee to be the more prominent flavor. Au contraire. I didn't taste a lot of English toffee, but there were little surprising pockets of sea salt throughout the bar.
What I loved doing after dinner was take small alternating nibbles of each chocolate bar until I had my sugar fix. I'd take a small bite of the Urban Nymph, then a small bite of the Sea Nymph, then back to Urban Nymph, and so on. It was heaven!
Cocoa Nymph3739 W. 10th Avenue (at Alma Street)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Telephone: 604-222-4477
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you always get such cool chocolates nooschi! the urban nymph sounds yummy. I'm going to Vancouver in April so I'll definitely check out this store now.
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