Marquesitas, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cheese.

February 27, 2009 / 0 comments

We just finished a really nice dinner at La Habicheula in downtown CancĂșn. We had decided before dinner to take a short stroll to the restaurant we had reservations for the following night, and preview the menu. I had already quickly scanned a map of the area earlier, from our Fodor’s tour book. On that…

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Gvardeysky Chocolate (Babaevsky)

February 27, 2009 / 0 comments

Well, the wrapper says chocolate, and it tastes like chocolate. So… it is chocolate? (Gosh we’re suckers for awkwardly translated food products.) Here’s a chocolate bar all the way from Russia, ‘produced, packaged’ by Babaevsky Confectionery Concern in Moscow, who appear to have been making chocolate since 1804. Admit it, Russia is probably not in…

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