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What an awesome chocolate shop by chocolate-genius José Ramón Castillo. We had a chance to meet the master and he gave us a beginners guide to eating truffles and drinking chocolate. The rice milk chocolate, light and toasty, was a revelation. The biggest surprise was when I got home and began eating the truffles, maybe… Continue reading Que Bo!
I just finished giving about a hundred people a chocolate tour. It was actually five chocolate tours over 3 weeks. On the tables and counters I had centerpieces of raw cacao, in the agave fiber sacks from the farm by the Gulf of Mexico in Tabasco, Mx. The latitude at which you can grow coffee… Continue reading Quetzalcoatl
This past Sunday afternoon I stopped off at Katherine Anne Confections to try their housemade hot chocolate. I wanted to compare it to XOCO. I must say, they are both excellent and super different. The Mexican hot chocolate I had at Katherine Anne was rich (milk-based) with a heat that builds slowly, both from chile… Continue reading Katherine Anne Confections
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