los angeles international chocolate salon: cocoa privé

i am so glad i attended this salon... betsy schoettlin, artisan chocolatier of cocoa privé, is quite a fabulous and eccentric character - - - which definitely shows in her chocolate. she carried the most phenomenal chocolates: goat cheese truffles, kalamata olive truffles, prune filled with irish whiskey ganache, ginger topped apricot covered in chocolate, chipotle marshmallow smore, australian glazed apricot with stilton and walnut ganache... all of which were absolutely divine.