It’s incredible but even Google doesn’t know it!
If you search for the word cioccolardini, the result, at least until now, is that it suggests searching for cioccolatini (chocolates). However the Cioccolardini do exist!
I discovered them last summer during the Vespatour 2006, my solo-tour around Italy riding a Vespa GTS, while I was visiting the typical lard shops in Colonnata, a little tuscan town at the center of the zone of the quarry caves, renowned for its delicious lard maturated inside tubs made of a particular type of marble.
In one of the lard shops a kind tuscan sir let me taste their lard and while I was concerned about the fact that I couldn’t take away some of it since I couldn’t properly preserve it until I got home, I noticed those chocolates. They’re made with fondant chocolate, honey, hazel paste and that touch of lard making them a real treat.
A delicious brilliant idea which didn’t last for long since I eated a whole box just before leaving Colonnata while I was seating in the small square near my Vespa parked beside a monument to Mazzini, as you can seee in the picture.
I promised myself to order some of them for relatives and friends, so what could be the best chance than Christmas holidays to share a bit of genuine sweetness in a time which seems to have lost the magic of Christmas, that of the present given for the pleasure to give and not for convenience, habit or profit?
I ordered so many boxes to be able to make happy my dearest friends and using for some of them a Christmas card of Il Sole on which I wrote an aphorism accurately choosen for the person receiving the present. The result has been great!
I think the people at La Marmifera, the lard shop where I discovered the Cioccolardini, will be glad of the free promotion, they earned it.
Hurrà for the Cioccolardini even Google didn’t know!