Partridge in Chocolate, Toledo-Style

Chocolate has been used in Spanish cooking since the discovery of the Americas, and though Partridge in Chocolate may sound strange to you it has an exquisite flavour. I had never cooked it before so my dearly beloved director found me a real-life Spanish Marquis to practise on. The Marqués de Griñón no less, who has an estate 50 kilometres or so west of Toledo, which is a magnificent town that has been pretty much ruined by souvenir shops selling imitation El Cid swords.

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