Word: rosenblumã
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...Rosenblum??s sweet saga begins in Mesoamerica, the birthplace of chocolate. Archaeologists say that the Mesoamerican Olmec people drank chocolate several millennia ago. And when Hernan Cortes and other conquistadors arrived in Mesoamerica, they were fascinated by chocolate. But most Europeans took some time to fall in love with chocolate—it wasn’t until the 1580s that they started processing and eating it in large quantities...
...Rosenblum??s guide on his European adventures is Chloe Doutre-Roussel, a French chocoholic who once scaled the wall of Valrhona’s Rhone Valley factory in order to catch a glimpse of production at her nation’s most secretive chocolatier...
...Rosenblum??s attempt to find and analyze the best chocolate even takes him south of the border. In Mexico, he watches as “mole mama” Martina Tlacoxolat makes mole, a thick chili-and-chocolate sauce that garnishes a traditional chicken dish. Just as Europeans debate over whether the best chocolate is made in France, Belgium, or Switzerland, Mexicans argue over which region has the best mole poblano, with Puebla and Oaxaca the primary contenders...
...information is too scattered. From Mesoamerica, Rosenblum jumps to France and then back to Mexico and then to France again. Though some chapters focus primarily on growers, information about cacao cultivation is also woven into other sections of the book. Sometimes it is difficult to keep track of Rosenblum??s journey...
...those who make the effort to keep up, “Chocolate” is as satisfying as a creamy coconut ganache inside an expertly-crafted almond couverture. The book itself is printed in chocolate-colored ink so alluring that if Rosenblum??s prose weren’t as eloquent, I might have eaten the pages. By the last word, even this non-chocolate-lover was hungry...