One of our goals in this blog is to bring you a little closer to the region the cacao is grown and the lives of those who foster the trees. Rich and Carolyn have become quite masterful at chocolate making. If you are like me, you will wish you had a way of beaming yourself into their kitchen. This is an excerpt from Carolyn's diary:
A beautiful day today
in Puerto Viejo Caribe, the land of chocolate by the sea! The sun was shining
on us as we made a special chocolate delivery by way of bicycles, to the small
town of Playa Chiquita. Our client Petra, a family friend of many years and hotel
owner of “La Isla Inn”, recently had heart surgery, is on a special diet….no
sweets! The chocolate we brought to her were beautiful heart shapes, 75% cocoa,
sweetened with Birtch sugar made from the Birtch Tree. Birtch sugar is a
wonderful compliment with its smooth taste and has no strange after taste like
other substitutes I have tried! It is great for those on diets that exclude use
of cane sugar for sweeteners. La isla Inn will soon be carrying this and other
Siriana Cocoa products to serve to their guests! On the way back from Playa
Chiquita, we stopped into a popular boutique in the center of Puerto Viejo and
shared some of our dark chocolate with almond samples. The store owner Celeste,
immediately placed an order for more to sell in her shop! More deliveries for
tomorrow, Vive Chocolate! I am glad for the health benefits and joy our clients
will be receiving from this delivery today.
And now a little side note on cocoa
and its health benefits! Upon our arrival to Puerto Viejo six months ago, I noticed
my mom had a small spot/bump on her hand about half the size of a dime. She
told me it had appeared months before and was VERY PAINFUL to the touch! My
mother was concerned, she did not know what it was, and though she’d been
treating it with various remedies; nothing seemed to make much difference. I
suggested she place a bit of ground pure cocoa on the area to treat it. Within
days, she began to see a noticeable change in the color and size of the spot as
it SHRANK and soon after, the pain she had been experiencing COMPLETELY
disappeared. It turns out the skin likes cocoa as much as the mouth! Vive the
power of cocoa! Be Blessed! Caroline
Siriana Cacao
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