· By Ronnie Watchorn
Poetry in Flavor
Brown Butter: The Robert Frost of Ingredients
Like Frost's warm, contemplative verses about nature and rural life, brown butter brings a golden, homey depth to chocolate. Just as Frost transformed simple observations into profound reflections, the process of browning butter elevates a basic ingredient into something rich with complex notes of toasted hazelnuts and caramel. It's familiar yet transformed, like Frost's view of a snowy evening or a stone wall.
Tobacco Leaf: The Charles Bukowski of Flavors
Bold, unapologetic, and surprisingly nuanced – our locally sourced tobacco leaf essence mirrors Bukowski's raw, honest poetry. Like his verses that cut through pretense to reveal beauty in the unexpected, tobacco adds an earthy, rebellious note that challenges conventional chocolate expectations.
Wild Blackberries: Emily Dickinson's Sweet Mystery
Our blackberries echo Emily Dickinson's work – wild, untamed, yet precisely perfect. Like her short, powerful verses, these berries burst with intense flavor, offering brief moments of summer sweetness captured in chocolate. There's something delightfully reclusive about both, waiting to be discovered and savored.
Sweet Corn: The Walt Whitman of Local Ingredients
Like Whitman's celebration of American life and landscapes, our locally sourced sweet corn represents the heart of Oklahoma's agricultural bounty. It brings a subtle sweetness and creamy texture that sings of summer fields and local farmers' markets – a true song of the heartland.
Swiss Chocolate Base: The Shakespeare of Foundations
Our carefully selected Swiss chocolate base is like Shakespeare's iambic pentameter – the perfect foundation upon which to build. Classic, reliable, and timelessly excellent, it provides the structure that allows our more adventurous ingredients to shine, just as Shakespeare's formats gave structure to his most innovative works.
Each of our chocolate creations is a carefully composed poem, bringing together these literary-worthy ingredients in harmonious verse. When you bite into our chocolates, you're not just tasting flavors – you're experiencing a carefully crafted story, told through the language of taste.