Short of exchanging pets around, there are few other ways one can meet or improve relationships with one's neighbour beside giving chocolate. A neighbour might forgive some lawn trampling and depredation of his landscape with enough chocolate.

In case I got to be the target of your goodwill and you are willing to give me some chocolate so that I excuse your multiple faults, let me lay out my preferences;

- dark, dark, dark. It got to be dark. 70% is a good number, the more the better. If it's sweet, it ain't chocolate.
- do NOT mix chocolate with anything else. No nuts, no berries, nothing. If you really, really want to give some fruity touch to chocolate, I might consider chocolate and orange, or citrus.
Milk chocolate is an heresy, white chocolate an insult; neither would improve your standing with me.
- if you want to cook with chocolate, you ought to consider my dear mum "failed chocolate cake". An utter failure she won't display outside of the family. The chocolate kind of all glue together, and the cake change into a big chocolate crumble with some nuts of intense chocolate it in. Nap it with some vanilla light cream...

There is no upper limit to the amount of chocolate you can give me. Be sure, I'll be gratefull until I need some more.

Louis,