While it turns out that Baci is just as much a nickname for chocolate hazelnut as Nutella, I’m sure they’d be happy to know that, in my mind at least, they’re the Kleenex of chocolate hazelnut candy!  Baci, which means kiss in Italian, is the much more delicious Nestle version of our Hershey Kisses.  Not only  is their taste superior to our plain Jane chocolates, but they come with little multilingual love notes inside the wrapper! 

 Joy and Bacis to You!

I’ll never forget my trip to the chocolate festival in Perugia, the home of the Perugina factory where these little pecks of heaven are crafted.  There was chocolate everywhere!  Hot chocolate as thick as honey, decadent chocolate desserts, and even a chocolate sculpture contest where artists chipped away at life size blocks of cocoa while people crowded at their feet to catch the scraps*.  How they maintained focus I will never know!  It was a trip to remember, even 6 years later.  And so here’s a little chip of Perugia just for you! 

 

Dillo con un Bacio! 

 

*Scraps?!  Excuse my blasphemy. 

 
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