Tempering Chocolate
Like most of us, I can’t remember the first time I tasted chocolate, but I have plenty of fond recollections of teenage indulgences, calorie-oblivious and urgent, right down to the Oreos and Entenmann’s chocolate pound cake I used to like to tamp down into water glasses then douse with milk. The ensuing sludge was very appealing to my 1970s palate, honed as it were on the munchies.