Impact
Robin Williams thinks cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money.
Meth, then, must be a sign you’re not making enough.
That’s why there’s chocolate – to cut the two & split the difference... between Free-will vs. Free-won’t as described by Gabor Mate’s In the Realm of the Hungry Ghost. He debunks the Genetic Hypotheses that genes carry the overweening responsibility for addiction. Predisposed - yes; pre-determined – no.
Factoid: 20% of American GIs serving in Vietnam returned home as heroin junkies. A couple years later all but 1% fell out of it into remission - & the overwhelming majority of those who remained hooked were susceptible & vulnerable due to a prior dysfunction -- from abusive family life to mean streets & brutal economic conditions.
Simply put, the blame rests mostly on stress & the quest to overcome it thru drug use.
The failure of the infantile war on drugs lies in a strategy to interdict supply without squeezing demand. Following that same logic leads to ‘people don’t kill people, guns do’. So let’s ban people.
The dirty secret: we can no longer alter demand than one can defy the laws of gravity because humans are hell-bent to spike endorphins & dopamine in the brain in an environment that requires it lest they fall off the ladder to ‘get ahead’.
While sugar-laden candy is a cheap substitute & builds craving, good high-quality chocolate satisfies without negative consequence or behavior on account of its nourishing yet self-limiting properties. A soft method, as opposed to hard drugs, accessing neuro-plasticity to re-wire the mind until, or in conjunction with, art, yoga, meditation, compassion, & love re-center the CNS, such as the mother & child bonding in eye contact that releases endorphins & oxytocin, decreases stress hormones, & flood their emotional reservoirs pooling around the heart in the beautiful opiate of holding.
‘Idilio’ stands for idyll in Spanish. And, this, a bar that goes to the rustic romance of chocolate.
Meth, then, must be a sign you’re not making enough.
That’s why there’s chocolate – to cut the two & split the difference... between Free-will vs. Free-won’t as described by Gabor Mate’s In the Realm of the Hungry Ghost. He debunks the Genetic Hypotheses that genes carry the overweening responsibility for addiction. Predisposed - yes; pre-determined – no.
Factoid: 20% of American GIs serving in Vietnam returned home as heroin junkies. A couple years later all but 1% fell out of it into remission - & the overwhelming majority of those who remained hooked were susceptible & vulnerable due to a prior dysfunction -- from abusive family life to mean streets & brutal economic conditions.
Simply put, the blame rests mostly on stress & the quest to overcome it thru drug use.
The failure of the infantile war on drugs lies in a strategy to interdict supply without squeezing demand. Following that same logic leads to ‘people don’t kill people, guns do’. So let’s ban people.
The dirty secret: we can no longer alter demand than one can defy the laws of gravity because humans are hell-bent to spike endorphins & dopamine in the brain in an environment that requires it lest they fall off the ladder to ‘get ahead’.
While sugar-laden candy is a cheap substitute & builds craving, good high-quality chocolate satisfies without negative consequence or behavior on account of its nourishing yet self-limiting properties. A soft method, as opposed to hard drugs, accessing neuro-plasticity to re-wire the mind until, or in conjunction with, art, yoga, meditation, compassion, & love re-center the CNS, such as the mother & child bonding in eye contact that releases endorphins & oxytocin, decreases stress hormones, & flood their emotional reservoirs pooling around the heart in the beautiful opiate of holding.
‘Idilio’ stands for idyll in Spanish. And, this, a bar that goes to the rustic romance of chocolate.
Appearance 3.7 / 5
| Color: | antique brown (no Ocumare red to speak of) |
| Surface: | bit of a schlub; grease splatter & tiny subsurface welts (Nibs pieces) |
| Temper: | smudged into uneven |
| Snap: | excellent all things considered... no wavering, just a slight hollow to the pitch; Lego™ set of Nibs sticking out the break wall |
Aroma 8.3 / 10
‘dude, you got peanuts in my jute sack’ -> leather -> green vines + pitanga / llanos (grassy savannah) -> airs a light acidic mix (tickled passion-fruit variants of sundrop & tamarillo, then naranjilla [especially its rhubarb/raspberry component]) -> along comes a wintergreen, part of an ‘Amazon grape’ (Pourouma cecropiaefolia)
Mouthfeel 13.1 / 15
| Texture: | micro-crunch / soft-butter hybrid |
| Melt: | adventurous |
Flavor 43.2 / 50
kick-start on the same throttle as Idilio Ocumare-72 -> grinds away faster & deeper into an almond-mushroom patch -> bitter ‘n acid alternator -> flash Tootsie Roll™ (soiled some) -> blackened cocoa -> Oreo™ dough -> corona of white rum F/Xs sipped thru-out Idilio’s entire Ocumare series... infused here w/ soncoya, orange & peaches -> almond out
Quality 16.4 / 20
As expected, Nibs pull the profile down though far from crashing it into the ground. None of the bread leavening or fruit levity that typifies the Ocumare origin. Felchlin’s customary medium-hi roast / lazy conche keeps this burbling as a hot-spring on the edge of blowing. An Ocumare with great force-field circling about the lower tannic registers.
Beyond the fun-house melt, this is a sort of hybrid between the unconched Crude & the fully-conched 72 which taken together give a quasi-vertical tasting on the origin primarily along a conching gradient. The series bears testament to this valley’s continuing legacy of prized cacáo well worth the flight.
ING: cocoa mass, sugar, cacáo butter, Nibs
Reviewed Spring 2010
Beyond the fun-house melt, this is a sort of hybrid between the unconched Crude & the fully-conched 72 which taken together give a quasi-vertical tasting on the origin primarily along a conching gradient. The series bears testament to this valley’s continuing legacy of prized cacáo well worth the flight.
ING: cocoa mass, sugar, cacáo butter, Nibs
Reviewed Spring 2010