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Chocolate Ice Cream

November 15, 2006

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If you are a person, chances are you like ice cream. I LOVE ice cream. Especially chocolate ice cream. After weeks of experimentation, I have come up with an ice cream recipe that will blow all the commercial chocolate ice creams out of the water. I still...

From tree to bean

June 10, 2006

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Before a cocoa bean is shipped off to the factory, it obviously must be grown and harvested from the pod. What is not very obvious is the complexity of the processes in between. A cocoa tree (theobroma cacao) grows from a seedling to pod-bearing maturit...

The Bounty of Costa Rica: a cacao expedition.

May 4, 2006

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This past weekend Larry returned from Costa Rica after having a real chocolate adventure. Lauren and Larry traveled across the country meeting cacao growers and people in the cocoa industry, from the small plot farmer to the big plantation owner. A Tr...

Mysterious and Tasty Chocolate in Puerto Uva

March 31, 2006

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Within the plastic constraints of a Spanish laden organic artesenal chocolate container were sticks of survivor’s- Caribbean survivor’s of repetitive and devastating fungal onslaught, drought, estranged and transferred ownerships. These survivors had eart...

Puerto Viejo

March 30, 2006

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With Chocorart in mind, I continued to hunt along the Caribbean for good cacao beans in Puerto Viejo, a world-renowned cacao growing region and beach paradise. Most of the cacao producers in Puerto Viejo have done a fantastic job forming cooperatives o...

Fungi Stories

March 30, 2006

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Fungi Stories in the Caribbean Coast While I did not get to see cacao in Puerto Viejo (and I was unwilling to wander onto other people’s land uninvited), I did hear stories, and I head two particularly interesting stories about the recent outbreaks of fu...

Finding Marcos

March 29, 2006

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More discoveries leading to the mysteriously good chocolate in Puenta Uva. During my first visit to Puerto Viejo I had called the number on the plastic container to learn more about Chocorart. I received no positive response. A friend in town told me t...

Hot Milk Cake

March 13, 2006

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As birthday’s come and go we are occasionally held responsible for baking birthday cakes. This happy chore recently placed itself squarely in my kitchen and I set out to complete the task. I am no great baker, and rarely actually bake any pastries, so I...

The Bonnat Tasting Party

March 1, 2006

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So, a couple weeks ago several friends of ours were gathered at Carl's house for a dinner party. They were just settling in after gobbling up some fantastic homemade pasta when I brought out the dessert suprise: a Bonnat chocolate tasting. A sampling an...

The Chocolateria

February 15, 2006

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Martha and Enrique opened the Chocolateria in Escazu, Costa Rica eleven years ago-one year after they moved to Costa Rica from the boat they lived on in the Jungle of Columbia- so that their daughter could grow up in a safe and tranquil environment. They...

New York Times blitz on chocolate

February 12, 2006

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Recently there have been several excellent articles in the New York Times that have focused on chocolate. More specifically, single-origin and small-production chocolates that have recently been making a big splash in the gourmet chocolate world. Links ...

Chocolate Manufacturing Methods

February 8, 2006

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The way chocolate is manufactured dictates how a chocolate will taste. It is very difficult to make great chocolate with nice flavor nuances using a low quality bean. And even if you begin with a very high quality bean it is difficult to make a chocolat...

Lauren on the Chocolate Trail

February 1, 2006

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Solar Ovens and Mixed Encounters My first encounter with chocolate was through an introduction to Georgie and Nick, a young couple who were traveling around the world learning about permaculture and solar-roasting ovens. They learned about solar-roastin...

Molineros

January 22, 2006

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Oaxacan Mission

January 20, 2006

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This past week Joel and I did some extensive chocolate recon in Oaxaca, Oaxaca Mexico. Oaxaca could be called the Mecca of the chocolate beverage. For well over two thousand years the inhabitants of this area have consumed cacao as a beverage by grind...

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