Sunday, July 31, 2011

Making Chocolate

The Bribri tribe makes their chocolate in a way free of preservatives and unpleasant chemicals.  To start the process they dry and roast the cocoa beans.  After this step they crush them beans with a large stone, and then shake the platter in a specific way as to shake of the crushed husks.  Next the crushed beans are ground into a pulp using a hand crank.  After all this work the chocolate is still very bitter, so to counteract that bitterness they mix in condensed milk.  The resulting chocolate is natural and delicious (especially when one dips a banana into the chocolate.)

-Kai

100_2420   100_2427

100_2411  100_2426

No comments:

Post a Comment



Adventure Details

Duration 8 days
Destinations San Jose
Arenal Volcano
Caribbean Coast
Focus Ecology/Conservation
Biology
Geology/Volcanology