Chocolate comes from the fermented, roasted, and ground beans of the cacao or cocoa tree. The word "Chocolate" comes form the Nahualt language of the Aztecs. The Nahualt word xocolatl means bitter water. The pre-Columbian peoples of the Americans drank chocolate mixed with vanilla, chile pepper, and achiote. Europeans sweetened it by adding sugar and milk and removing the chile pepper. They later created a process to make solid chocolate creating the modern chocolate bar. Although cocoa is originally from the Americas, today Western Africa produces almost twothirds of the world’s cocoa, with Côte d´Ivoire growing almost half of it. Today, it is one of the almost popular and recognizable flavours in the world. There are many foods that contain chocolate such as chocolate bars, candy, ice cream, cookies, cakes, pies, chocolate mousse, and other desserts.
Chocolat contains more than 40 recipes, created especially for this book and ranging from the simple to the ambitious, enable the reader anywhere in the world to taste these chocolate jewels.
The book comes beautifully boxed with a richly padded hard-bound cover that simulates the look and feel of a bar of chocolate wrapped in silver paper. 164 pages, 230mm x 200mm. The book and box have the scent of rich, dark chocolate.
Beautifully gift wrapped and trimmed with satin ribbon.
