Valentines Ardent Heart
It sounds like the ideal Valentines gift – The Ardent Heart: A heart-shaped chocolate shell filled with Marc Demarquette chocolates each containing alleged aphrodisiacs.
22.5 carat gold leaf gives way to a heart of milk chocolate. Though it might break your heart to break your heart, the sultry dark chocolates within will make ardent amends. All hand made in London using Madagascan cocoa and Hampshire cream
Throughout history, those hungry for love have found inflammatory fuel. Chocolate itself has long been implicated: the Aztec ruler Montezuma forbade women from foods with a high cocoa content. Christian monks held it in similar regard and banned it from the monastery. Later it formed a key part of Casanova’s formidable armoury: the ancestors of our Parisian Ganache would have been known to him. In China and Japan, cherry blossom represents the powerful feminine impulse. Provencal almonds give forth pheromones while Aristotle warned Alexander’s soldiers from mint tea.
Chocolates within the Ardent Heart, which is available from Fortnum & Mason for £50, include Parisian Ganache, Provencal Praline, Oriental Jasmine Green Tea, Moroccan Mint Tea and Japanese Cherry Blossom.
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