{"id":80,"date":"2018-11-25T07:31:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T07:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.medleyfields.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2018-11-25T23:11:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T23:11:30","slug":"70-sierra-leone-dandelion-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medleyfields.com\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"70%. Sierra Leone. Dandelion Chocolate."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>&#8220;In this bar, we taste molten chocolate cake, toffee, and cinnamon.&#8221;<\/p><cite>Dandelion Chocolate<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-container-2 wp-block-gallery-1 wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.medleyfields.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/MVIMG_20181124_165439-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"83\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.medleyfields.com\/?attachment_id=83\" class=\"wp-image-83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.medleyfields.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/MVIMG_20181124_165439-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.medleyfields.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/MVIMG_20181124_165439-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.medleyfields.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/MVIMG_20181124_165546-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"82\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.medleyfields.com\/?attachment_id=82\" class=\"wp-image-82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.medleyfields.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/MVIMG_20181124_165546-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.medleyfields.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/MVIMG_20181124_165546-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.medleyfields.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/MVIMG_20181124_165716-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"70p-sierrraleone-dandelion\" data-id=\"81\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.medleyfields.com\/?attachment_id=81\" class=\"wp-image-81\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.medleyfields.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/MVIMG_20181124_165716-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.medleyfields.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/MVIMG_20181124_165716-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Smoothy, creamy, solid toffee tones<\/li><li>Good for mild bar lovers<\/li><li>Cost: $10 (<a href=\"https:\/\/store.dandelionchocolate.com\/\">still available at Dandelion<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3>Review<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The bar is smooth and creamy, though made in American-style craft chocolate (no additional cocoa butter).&nbsp; True to its description, you taste the toffee flavors as the bar melts on your tongue. You feel the richness in the cracking sound of the bar squares. It is a nice bar, non-offensive &#8212;&nbsp; likely a good bar to share with your friend who likes a milder-flavored bar.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The one downside is that there is a bit of an astringency that I am not a fan of &#8212; though it is hard to tell if that is because the bar is a bit older or if it can be attributed to the bar flavor itself. The bar is a few months old, but the sticker on the back recommends &#8220;Enjoy by Mar 2019&#8221;, so I trust that it should still be good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I close my eyes and savor the flavor, you can taste and see in the flavors of the Gola Rainforest in Sierra Leone, right on the border of Liberia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d2020816.4516915993!2d-12.43482848844368!3d8.455492237736864!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0xf07e28ba6481afd%3A0x513344b3d17c91d7!2sGola+Rainforest+National+Park!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1543129291083\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h2>The Story of this Bar<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>After I learned about craft chocolate, I bought a few bars for my sister and brother-in-law as a Christmas present to share the joy. Since then, they have spoiled me with countless surprise gift bars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This bar is one such gift from a earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Admittedly, I have not been as good at consuming the bars as I have been at admiring their exteriors and enjoying the fact that I have chocolate to eat. I possess a bad habit where I slowly savor such treats and draw out the process so that I can enjoy the chocolate as long as possible. Strangely, this is in spite of my conviction that fresh chocolate always tastes better than old chocolate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> My hope is that this journaling process will help me break out of the habit because I will have an excuse to eat my bars at a faster &#8212; or you could say more regular &#8212; pace, without feeling indulgent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, here we go, my first review ever!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In this bar, we taste molten chocolate cake, toffee, and cinnamon.&#8221; Dandelion Chocolate Summary Smoothy, creamy, solid toffee tones Good for mild bar lovers Cost: $10 (still available at Dandelion) Review The bar is smooth and creamy, though made in American-style craft chocolate (no additional cocoa butter).&nbsp; True to its description, you taste the toffee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medleyfields.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medleyfields.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medleyfields.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medleyfields.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medleyfields.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.medleyfields.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/www.medleyfields.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medleyfields.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medleyfields.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medleyfields.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}