If life is like a box of chocolates, some Ukrainian confectioners are thinking well outside the box.
Salo restaurant, in Ukraine’s western city of Lviv, has carved out a reputation for serving the eponymous Slavic food of cured pork fat with just about everything: The restaurant serves sushi rolls wrapped in strips of salo, and even an evil-sounding salo ice cream (that this correspondent didn’t have the fortitude to try). But it’s their boxes of chocolate salo that have proved a porky triumph for the business.
