Chocolate Bars and Champagne Truffles
In 2010 Stephanie took a business trip to Basel and brought back a box of Sprüngli Champagne truffles for me. You could say she had me at "confiserie". That same year, the youngest competitor in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, an 11 year old from Canada, misspelled "confiserie". It seemed like a spellable enough word--then again I had been extracting one beautiful truffle a night, savoring the smooth, silky chocolates with the Confiserie Sprüngli logo on the box for week