Gorant Chocolatier

The time of chocolates and flowers is upon us, and I would like to recommend these particular chocolates for the upcoming holiday.  Valentine's Day is more of a celebration of guilt rather than love.  There are things that you supposed to do, and if you fail to do them, you are in trouble.  Not my cup of tea, I must say, but if you are someone who will be in the dog house if you fail to produce a delectable box of chocolates as a surrogate for the quality and quantity of your love, these are my recommended ones.

My family of origin is all about familiarity and repetition.

We are not ones for new and different.

We are all about doing what we always do, rather than blazing new ground.

We always have turkey for Christmas dinner.  We always have soup on Christmas Eve.  We like things to be predictable.

One of the recurring holiday gifts within my family is See’s chocolates—the ideal is to go to the store and create a box of favorites, but the Nuts and Chews collection is a very acceptable second best.  It is not so much that See’s is the best chocolate, but rather that it is very good chocolate that we have been sharing as a family for my entire life.  It is familiar, and the holidays are all about tradition.

Several years ago my father brought a new brand of chocolate into the Christmas season—Gorant chocolates are an Ohio chocolatier and they have a very good collection of chocolate covered nuts that we shared for several years.  I really loved them, and when the store in their neighborhood stopped carrying them, I really missed them.  This year I discovered what I should have thought of earlier—they are available on line.  We did a side-by-side taste testing this Christmas and we all agreed.  The Gorant chocolates definitely have better chocolate than the See’s—and a higher chocolate to nut ratio as well.  I foresee this being the new gold standard for the holidays.