TravelTrekkr

Christina Matheson

Chocolate 101 at Xoxolat – Vancouver
I recently had the pleasure of attending a Chocolate, Cheese and Whisky pairing event as part of the Annual Hopscotch Whisky Festival at the International Culinary School in Vancouver. Not only was it super fabulous, but it was my first introduction to the amazing chocolate you can purchase at Xoxolat (pronounced sho-sho-la), a local Vancouver store.  So of course, as soon as I got home I checked out the Xoxolat website and much to my delight, Xoxolat hosts Chocolate 101 Workshops on a monthly basis.

These  introductions to the world of chocolate promise to include:

• Tasting the difference between chocolate from different plantations.
• Characteristics of chocolate? Taste by numbers.
• Terms of endearment: tempering, tabling, seeding, cooling.

And of course, you’ll have to try samples of a broad range of chocolate so you’ll have a firsthand knowledge of this “food of the gods.”

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