Today is World Chocolate Day!
July 7, 2016 marks 466 years since chocolate was introduced to Europe.
It arouses sweet memories of a trip to the north on a rainy day in March.
Right there where we were staying, in Kibbutz Degania Beit, was a small chocolate factory!
Or as their sign says,
Galita, the chocolate farm
Exciting chocolate experience
The store had a precious cocoa tree full of cocoa pods (behind glass!).
The cacao plant was first given its botanical name by Carl Linnaeus in his original classification of the plant kingdom, who called it Theobroma ("food of the gods") cacao.
After lots of free sampling, I decided on a little bottle of delicious chocolate liqueur.
Who knew! Jews had a hand in the production and spread of chocolate centuries ago.
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(Linking to signs, signs.)
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"Delicious chocolate liqueur" ... sigh.... of course it is gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteWho can resist chocolate?
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh... I would love this experience. As who would not! I'm a firm believer in the necessity of good grade "Vitamin C(hocalate) :)))
ReplyDeleteI thought that every day was chocolate day!
ReplyDeleteThat's funny, my son just informed me that it was World Chocolate Day and that we needed chocolate ice cream to celebrate.
ReplyDeleteI was fine with that idea :)
MMMM! That says it all : )
ReplyDeleteFor me could be every day a world chocolate day...
ReplyDeleteI did not know yesterday was the chocolate day! I had not even one piece of chocolate,that must be corrected;D
ReplyDeleteThat cacao tree looks lovely. Saw many of those when I lived in Venezuela and visited a cacao farm.
The pods are such an odd, bulbous shape. Makes you wonder who figured out they were edible!
ReplyDeleteJanis
GDP
Every day is chocolate day for moi Dina 😃 Food of the gods is the perfect description :)
ReplyDeleteIt is hard to believe how much labor goes into making a simple bar of chocolate!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cadbury.com.au/about-chocolate/harvesting-and-processing-cocoa-beans.aspx