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August 24, 2005
Sweetriot...A New Movement In Cacao
Was up till 2 a.m. chatting with Joe on Skype last night. Among the many things we talked about, he mentioned that Sarah Endline started a business in New York City selling chocolates.
The company's name is Sweetriot and it has a frigging cool tagline - A New Movement In Cacao. Sweet!
Had a sneak preview of the website that she'll be launching. Like the tagline, the look and feel is absolutely cool.
The name, the tagline, the design of the site are just so congruent. Anyway, can't wait to lay my hands on Sweetriot's chocolates.
The tagline A New Movement In Cacao makes me think about creme de cacao, and when I think about creme de cacao, I think about the Chocolate Martini, and when I think about the Chocolate Martini, I think about Alicia Stammer.
Alicia and I still talk on the phone almost on a weekly basis. She's now in Sacramento, California doing her MBA in Organizational Development with Pepperdine University.
She and I used to frequent Greenwich Cafe in Chelsea when we were living in New York City. We would order our favorite calamari and she would always have her Chocolate Martini.
A few days before I left NYC to return to Singapore for good, we both got each other the same farewell gift. It's a book called New Classic Cocktails coz it has the recipes of her favorite Chocolate Martini and my favorite chick's drink - The Cosmopolitan.
Here's the recipe of the favorite cocktail of one of my dearest friends.
The Chocolate Martini
Ingredients:
Unsweetened cocoa powder, to coat the rim of the glass;
1 Hershey's Hug candy;
2 ounces high-quality vodka;
1 1/2 ounces white creme de cacao
1. Use a few drops of creme de cacao to moisten the outside of the rim of a cocktail glass. Sprinkle lightly but evenly with the cocoa powder. Place the Hershey's Hug, pointed top up, in the bottom of the glass.
2. Fill a large mixing glass two-thirds full of ice cubes. Pour in the vodka and creme de cacao and stir until very well chilled. Strained into the prepared cocktail glass. Serve at once.
fyi: The Chocolate Martini was created in 1993 by Kerry Simon who was the executive chef at Max's South Beach in Miami.
Posted by loganw at August 24, 2005 05:35 PM
