COFFEE and CHOCOLATE PAIRING Episode 48 Valentine's Day Special Madison, Wisconsin Sponsored by: Blubrry Podcasting-Launch your Podcast the Blubrry Way! https://create.blubrry.com/resources/podcast-media-hosting/ Following our episode at Old Town Coffee and Chocolates and in celebration of the upcoming Valentines Day, we decided to do a live coffee and chocolate pairing right in our own backyard. Madison, Wisconsin. Madison is the capital of Wisconsin, the 2nd largest city after Milwaukee, and home to Gail Ambrosius Chocolatier,arguably the midwest's best ”single origin” chocolate. What better place to select our chocolate!. Have you ever given thought as to why chocolate and coffee taste so good together? It all boils down to individual preferences and those wonderful little things lining our tongue called taste buds. Like fingerprints no two are identical, so whatever you like there is no wrong answer. With this in mind coffee enthusiast Sandy Thomas, and I embarked on a java and chocolate pairing of our own. We started with one of our favourite Italian coffees available nationwide Lavazza in a Medium roast and Espresso. No preconceptions, we each came to our own conclusions following seven mouth watering delicacies purchased at Gail Ambrosius Chocolatier of Madison. With varying degrees of cacao, with coffee plain and with creamer, different opinions were proclaimed, debated and savoured. Tune in to find out the conclusions, in this special Valentines Day edition of the Cross Country Coffee Roadshow, chocolate and coffee pairing. A thank you again to Gail Ambrosius Chocolatier for helping us select a wide and unusual variety of chocolates. Guaranteed your results will vary. Order now, get your favourite coffee and off you go! https://gailambrosius.com/ If you would like additional information on how to conduct your own pairing, we have included two websites for you to explore and then complete your own Valentines day nonscientific test! https://guide.michelin.com/en/article/dining-out/chocolate-and-coffee https://blog.equalexchange.coop/the-art-and-science-of-chocolate-coffee-pairing/ Treat your honey to a chocolate and coffee pairing, and have a Happy Valentines Day! Make sure to check out this week's playlist for our guest favorite love songs on Spotify. http://bit.ly/CoffeeChocolatePairing Remember if you have a question,or topic you want us to follow up on from this week, or any other episode of the CCCRS,we are happy to try to get that done in the segment we call Free Refills. Just leave us a message at https://crosscountrycoffeeroadshow.com/