Our family Shabbat dinner chocolate-tasting spontaneously turned into a form of kiddush (the blessing using wine which welcomes the Sabbath). In part I was thinking about Jews in Colonial period Mexico who sometimes used drinking chocolate for kiddush when wine was not available. Mostly I wanted to sample one of the Camille Bloch liquor filled bars we had bought when visiting the Bloch factory in Switzerland but I did not want to eat the entire piece.

This is what happened with the grappa filled chocolate on October 1: