This week’s Chef Special features Richard Kaplan, whose Brown Paper Chocolates was recently nominated for the Gallo Gold Medal, a national award for artisanal food producers–who better to ask for chocolate bunny advice?

So Richard, why do the ears taste best?

Because they’re usually the first bite you take.

— Robb Walsh

This article appears in Mar 22-28, 2007.

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