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[jmc_bks]

Check out this little bit on the history of chocolate in Spain. My chocolate favorite from Tienda would be the piedras de chocolate. But the turrón piglet seen here is what I hope to find in my Easter basket.

After reading the fabulous Dragon Blood, I was reluctant to try anything new.  Would the next book be as good?  Would it suffer in comparison?  I picked up a copy of Meljean Brook's Demon Moon at the same time I purchased Dragon Blood, but was a bit worried about high expectations and the BD reading euphoria wearing off.  So instead I moved on to Pride of Baghdad.  Being from a different genre entirely, my expectations were different.  But they, too, were met and exceeded.  PoB rocked.  The art.  The colors, the fonts/typeface used.  The story.  The whole thing.  So my next graphic novel purchase will be another selection from Vaughan's backlist of comics and collaborations.  Excluding maybe the Buffy ones, since I've never been a Buffy fan.

 I have the last two recaps of my Restaurant Week experiences to share.  Longer version with menu details will be forthcoming.  Short version:  one fabulous lunch that made up for a 25 minute wait (even with reservations) at Oya and one good enough meal at Cork's that would not be worth full fare during non-Restaurant Week.

Comments

[rosario001.livejournal.com]

The cerdito is cuteness personified (piggyfied?), but turrón doesn't really say Easter to me. I go for mazapán myself, rather than chocolate eggs.

[jmc-bks.livejournal.com]

I don't associate turrón with Easter generally. But my mother still prepares an Easter basket for each of her children, and she asked me if there was any particular treat or gift I'd like to see in mine. Hence the cerdito. Casa Colomina also makes makes very good mazapán...which I had at Christmas. :)