For Northern and central Europeans, December 6th is St. Nicholas Day, and St. Nicholas Day is the chocolate holiday.
It's admittedly a kid's holiday. Ostensibly, you're meant to polish your own shoe and leave something out for him to eat. But in our house, it has perversely turned into St. Nicholas finding his own way to the fridge, the shoe cupboard (notice how he found my most fanciful outrageously colourful ones), and getting treats for adults. I just get to come downstairs and find them. This year, Neuhaus, all crème fraîche fillings. R. must have told him what I like.
Funny, I thought this was only a Dutch tradition. In Holland the classic present is a big chocolate letter (usually your initial).
I didn't get anything this year, which is probably a good thing since I'm recently declared diabetic and sweets are of the menu for now. But I do crave them.
Posted by: mare | December 09, 2008 at 11:59 AM
!!! Will St. Nicholas bring me the shoes??
Posted by: beth | December 09, 2008 at 04:28 PM
Mare: Now I also want a big chocolate letter. Perhaps for you, a very dark chocolate M need be found--less sweet but no less delicious.
Beth: I know--how good are they? I'll make sure he remembers next year...
Posted by: Tori | December 09, 2008 at 07:40 PM
OMG - that is so absolutely adorable.
Posted by: Szerelem | December 10, 2008 at 02:31 AM