One of very few local chocolatiers, the Eldersburg MD-based company creates three delectable flavors: dark chocolate with sea salt, dark chocolate with organic cane sugar, and (my bar of choice) dark chocolate with sea salt and organic cracked black pepper.
As soon as a piece hits your tongue it is a burst of bold, bitter flavor. The salt and pepper provide both spice and sweetness to the dark mouth-puckering chocolate.
Each bar has the wrapper's image imprinted onto the chocolate itself, to make for a deliciously powerful taste that is beautiful too.
The cute shop "Ma Petite Shoe/Oh Said Rose!" in Hampden carries the Salazon line of gourmet chocolate bars, along with numerous other gourmet chocolate brands...enough to keep you watering at the mouth until you can walk out of the store with at least two or three in hand.
(The store also has an adorable assortment of shoes. Walk in and you're surrounded by a woman's dream come true. They sell men's shoes too.)
Jackie's review: 4.5 stars (extremely delicious and unique...but not nearly enough! I want more, please!)
