Palate luxury comforts: chocolate über Alles

There are months of the year (always) in Edinburgh in which the rain doesn't stop tear-dropping from the Sky and this perpetual Fall is the common scenario we have to face. The sharp contrast you may notice in Spain, South France, Italy and Greece here is much more mitigates. The temperature never goes higher than 20 °C and you're pushed to indulge on some luxury goods that in southern Europe would annihilate your metabolism.

As a matter of fact, a great comfort was invented by Ferrero when he brought out onto the market Nutella. Despite this popularity, I prefer to attach my attention on more niche-ish products, whose ingredients are carefully selected and also the taste gives back the value of the price. Good quality products are a sort of cuddle, you aren't probably saving money, but investing it into a more adequate filed rather than booze or fish and chips or deep-fried-Mars (apparently irresistible, but deadlier than a bullet.

Four self-gifts that have changed 

my week into a radiant chain of trammeled

little pleasures:

Rigoni  di Asiago, spreadable chocolate,

Fair trade dark chocolate,

Tyrrells hand made lightly salted crisp bag,

Border ring-shortbreads with chocolate chips.

Twinings provides a wide range of good teas,

yet only some of them are 

over the top in fancy pillow bags

(my mum's favourite, btw)

Green & Black organic chocholat bars:

superfluous to say, but they are excellent

as a dessert with friends because of the variety of tastes

(majestic if served within a yogurt cup)

Gressinghram duck & pork sausages with apple and honey

(unbelievably succulent)

and an organic half-loaf of white bread

(very wise to have a slice with some extra-virgin olive oil)

A smoked ham for the East of Italy 

Trieste, the gate to Slovenia

[soon a recipe with this delicatessen]

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