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  1. curmudgeonly
    brusque, surly, and forbidding
    Even the most curmudgeonly Valentine couldn’t help but melt at that thought.
  2. sophisticate
    a person who is cultured and has worldly experience
    Maybe you’re thinking of buying your sweetheart a box of retro buttercreams, or sophisticated (but, yawn, predictable) ganache truffles?
  3. obsess
    be preoccupied with something
    The quality is higher than ever, with chocolatiers obsessing over the percentage and blends of the chocolate coating, the feed of the cows that produce the butter, the minerality of the sea salt.
  4. confection
    a food rich in sugar
    Ages before Starbucks introduced its salted caramel mocha, caramel candy made with salted butter was a traditional confection in France, Brittany in particular.
  5. de rigueur
    required by etiquette, custom, or fashion
    Today, the gray salt-topped caramels are iconic (so much so that we did not include them in our blind tasting, since they are too recognizable), and salted caramel chocolates are de rigueur for artisanal and commercial chocolate makers across the country.
  6. culinary
    of or relating to or used in cooking
    Julia Moskin, Florence Fabricant and I sampled 27 candies, alongside Karen DeMasco, the pastry chef at Locanda Verde in Manhattan, and Michael Laiskonis, the creative director of the Institute of Culinary Education (and the former executive pastry chef at Le Bernardin).
  7. tweak
    adjust finely
    Fran Bigelow, in Seattle, tweaked the form in 1999, garnishing her chocolate-covered caramels with a sprinkle of French gray sea salt.
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