Lust & Chocolate with Author Michele Hauf (Ep. 53)
With Valentine’s Day around the corner, I figured this was a good time to sit down with author Michele Hauf, who has written a romance novel themed around craft and bean to bar chocolate called Lust and Chocolate. During our conversation we talk about her process for writing the book, her own journey into craft chocolate, and whether or not chocolate is really an aphrodisiac.
Lust and Chocolate follows Melanie Peters, a plucky food reporter tasked with tracking down and reviewing the world’s most coveted chocolate. Melanie, a chocoholic obsessed with the world of bean to bar chocolate, has set out to try the coveted Sommer Chocolates bon bons. The only problem? There’s a one-year waiting list to buy even a small box of the bon bons, and no one is willing to share. To try the seductive chocolates, she might have to outwit their equally seductive creator, Maksim von Sommer.
Chocolate makers mentioned in this episode include French Broad, Map, Amadei, Fjak, Momotombo, and Terroir.
You can purchase Lust & Chocolate at Amazon or Barnes & Noble.
You can read more about chocolate’s purported role as an aphrodisiac here.
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