Who ground the chocolate? Not a trivial question
Of all the difficult things to turn into food (and most plants and animals are difficult to turn into food), cacao beans and their processing rank way up there. Let’s…
Read moreThe trick to grinding cacao on the metate (grindstone).
Now grinding seeds is always hard so it’s no wonder that Beatrice resorted to the coffee grinder, especially because she was working with a pestle and mortar, which, even if…
Read moreThe long road from cacao to chocolate
Chocolate is an oddity. It’s one of the few native American foodstuffs to make it immediately to the Old World. And now, when anyone who has any pride in their…
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