Suzanne Harrington: How to make Dubai chocolate at home — just in time for Easter
Suzanne Harrington: "This isn’t just about a recipe for a supposedly luxury hard-to-find item, or about inducing diabetes in your loved ones – it’s about taking back control, it’s about engaging a DIY ethos in a world gone Dubai chocolate mad." Picture: Andrew Dunsmore.
On a recent stopover in Qatar, the bill for a humble quartet of cucumber maki - it seemed to cost about the same per gram as bluefin tuna – eaten at 2am with my eyes stuck together, blinded by the bling of all the diamond-encrusted abayas on sale in the airport shop opposite, left me too discombobulated to remember two important chocolate-related things.
Firstly, the weekend of chocolate Jesus eggs is almost upon us, and secondly, this would probably be a good place to track down some Dubai chocolate, given how everyone back home is losing their collective minds about the stuff.
