Chicagoist: Localvore Challenge: Day 1

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Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:21:36 -0600

If you can make an exception for coffee, why not chocolate? Why make any exceptions at all? If you really want to do this, why not go all the way?

guest

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:51:08 -0600

Given that the midwest isn't exactly the right climate to grow cacao trees, I would say chocolate is out if you want to be strict about it.

Bekki

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:46:14 -0600

What about Diet Coke? I'm sure those ingredients can be made/found locally, right? Please!!!

lshames

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:26:32 -0600

Yes, I agree: I love living in a city that often smells of chocolate (it could smell a lot worse, right?). Haven't been to the outlet but me thinks that could make a perfect market post in the very near future. From what I know—and I'm definitely winging this—the ingredients, for the most part, must be 'local,' too. Thanks for the tips and have some chocolate for me, please!

Jocelyn Geboy

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:10:52 -0600

so ... blommer's chocolate is out? they make the city smell like a big cookie, and their outlet/misfit store is DELISH. does it not count if they use ingredients from outside IL? i can't attest to that part. other than that, i think there are several fancy chocolatiers in chicago, aren't there? mmmm ... chocolate.