Maison Fossier Charles VII Au Chocolat Noir Craquant

These biscuits come from the oldest biscuiterie in France, established in Reims in 1756. This features dark chocolate, and is made in the traditional method. The ingredient listing is good, for a cookie, wheat flour, dark chocolate (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, soy lecithin), sugar, concentrated butter (milk), eggs, dextrose, salt, baking powder and flavour.

How do they taste? The biscuit is crispy, a good biscuit, the dark chocolate is fairly sweet but does work well with the biscuits. I think these are pretty good, not great biscuits. From the box, it looks like they might have some with more interesting ingredients, like rose, but I don't have a source for this kind, nor any other kind. The box of 8 biscuits was $6, so a little pricey.

Le Palais des Thés - Thé Des Moines

Certainly I was allured by the scent coming from this large cardboard box from Le Palais des Thés at Winners, a spicy, floral heady aroma. Looking at the literature attached, it talks about the romantic notion of a Tibetan mystery, a community of monks who soak a combination of tea and flowers in utmost secrecy for several days, then plucked out and dried.

This fragrant tea was then sealed in sand, brown or black little clay pots (the tea comes in an authentic version), which preserves its flavour and scent,

and tied with the string that a monk would use to tie their habit (again, which this tea does).

This tea is a combination of green and black teas, with flowers.

The tea, when steeped, becomes a sort of reddy brown colour. Each pot contains 125 g of the tea combination; use 10 g per steeping.

Certainly, it has an intriguing scent, which remains after several days of being open. The taste is interesting, sort of a mellower black tea, with hints of flowers. I don't know how I could ever find this again, but I will enjoy it as I still have some, another different tea in my varied collection.

Les Comtes de Provence Organic Black Cherry

Jam to me should be high in fruit content, with less sugar and few other ingredients, this particular one, made from black cherries (I have seen lots of other fruit jams they also produce), from the French company Les Comtes de Provence, is quite delicious. The only issue I had with it, is that there were still some stones in there. The ingredient listing is great, organic black cherries, cane sugar, fruit pectin and concentrated lemon juice.