Momotombo: Organic Chocolate from Nicaragua
by Kyeann Sayer, Nomad on 11.17.05
With dark chocolate's profile on the rise, it's hard to avoid salivation-inducing news: chocolate tastings, chocolate trade shows, the new Mars CocoaVia "nutritional" chocolate bar. By the time I read about Momotombo's fresh, fudge-like chocolate last week I was ready to hop on a (carbon offset) plane to Managua to try the stuff out.
The innovative confections are hand crafted from organic, unpressed and unheated cacao seeds. Sweet flavors include guava, lemongrass and ginger. Some savory options: garlic, habanero and tequila with lime. The preservative-free goodies have a shelf life of thirty days.
For now, you can grab your own at the Nicaragua air port, where Chocolate Momotombo is quickly becoming a national product. With international specialty demand, the company will be able to create more jobs, expanding from one kitchen with three workers to a network of rural studios. :: The Momotombo Chocolate Factory
this would have been good to know -before- halloween. Please inform us again sufficientl before St. Valentines day. :)
Also I would like to say that Wired is reporting today, that Du Pont's candy wrapper lining 'Zonyl' is nasty stuff (liver and kidney damage) and leeches into our food at three times the safety levels suggested by the FDA. And it's in freakin everything. Once digested it turns into " perfluorooctanoic acid". It would be nice if we could make sure that Treehugger candies and other food containers contain no Zonyl. Thanks.
I have a co-worker who just told me he's heading to Nicaragua for Thanksgiving. He's agreed to pick some up for me!!! I love these kind of coincidences!