DEATH BY CHOCOLATE CAKE
Death By Chocolate is a marketing term for various desserts that feature chocolate as the primary ingredient. The trademark in the United States was owned by S&A Restaurant Group, the parent company of Bennigan's restaurants, but with the subsequent bankruptcy of the company the current legal status is unclear. In the United Kingdom and European Union, the registered trade mark rights belong to F.T. Wood & Sons Limited. Nevertheless, unlicensed uses of the term are common. In the late 1970s, several restaurants in the Cleveland, Ohio, area offered a "Death by Chocolate" dessert in response to the demand created by the mention of a fictional dish of the same name on Barnaby & Friends, a children's television show on WKYC, then WUAB, starring Linn Sheldon. This usually consisted of chocolate cake, chocolate ice cream, chocolate brownies and chocolate syrup layered in a tall parfait glass.
ORIGIN
A murderously rich chocolate cake has been created by cake maker and actress Jane Asher to mark what would have been the 120th birthday of queen of crime Agatha Christie.
Asher's cake was inspired by a passage in Christie's 50th novel, the Miss Marple tale A Murder is Announced
Basing her recipe on the ingredients mentioned in the 1950 book, Asher created her own version of Delicious Death. "It has an intense, forbidding dark Belgian chocolate center which is lifted by the unexpected sharp zing of its brandy-soaked cherry and ginger filling," she said. "The glorious assault on
the senses doesn't end there: the cake is decorated with flecks of pure gold, sprinklings of crystallized rose and violet petals, and swirls of ganache piping. This paragon of a cake is as beautiful to look at as it is delicious – and deadly? – to eat."
LATER APPEARANCE AND MENTIONS
In 1981 Jeffrey Fields opened a restaurant on the Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica called Les Anges. He and his French Pastry Chef, Claude Koeberle, invented a chocolate cake that they called "la Mort au Chocolat", translated as "Death by Chocolate". It was on the menu on opening day and remained very popular throughout the life of the restaurant. Reference to the dessert first appeared in a Los Angeles Times review, by critic Lois Dwan, on 13 September 1981. Subsequent mentions appeared in a January 1982 Travel & Leisure column by Sharon Boorstin, an October 1982 review of Les Anges in Gourmet Magazine, by Caroline Bates, and a feature in the Premier Issue of Chocolatier Magazine in 1984.
MY ENCOUNTER WITH DEATH BY CHOCOLATE CAKE
I first saw this strange named cake at "Latika's Thalia" in Kanpur. Mesmerized by its name I did a little research about the cake before taking a bite coz life is important. At first I was like am I literally buying the death and then another thought popped up in my mind which said "you're not gonna die so easily". All I could found about the "Death by chocolate cake" is mentioned above.
REVIEW
4/5Place- Latika’s Thalia
Location- Swaroopnagar, Kanpur Uttar Pradesh
Price range- 💸💸💸( little expensive )
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