Chocolate tour at Toscana
Travel writer Danielle Pergament, Italy's Toscana region make exquisite chocolate shop, a small but prestigious masters of the "true craftsmen of Dolce Vita," he says. In fact in this region is renowned for vineyards, Pisa'dan small Italian city of Florence on the way to the construction and presentation of the man's mouth water are the çikolatacı.
Pisa'dan a few kilometers away, a small town called Cascina, DeBondt a very good çikolatacı curious to know. The owner of Paul DeBondt here, this small but elegant shop does not sell anything other than never chocolate. And there is chocolate, and are sold to packaging. There are also a larger store DeBondt'un Pisa'da (Lungarno Pacinotti, No. 5; +39-050-316-0073; www.debondtchocolate.com).
Toscana, 20 century in the second half of the world was one of the most popular pleasure centers. Ties, old houses, has attracted tourists to small towns; pasta, the prosciutto'su, wine and cheese known all over the world. Since the 1980s was born here and a chocolate culture. The grinding cocoa beans, and melt the chocolate into a small factory in Florence, Pisa and Montecatini in the triangle between the spread and there was cause attached to the name of Chocolate Valley.
DeBondt Paul says: "To talk Toscanalılar food, food tasting, food is grown to review. I am Dutch. There is no tradition of eating in the Netherlands. I just have a boiled potato is tradition. Haşlanmış here I can not even talk about potatoes. "
ROBERTO CATINARI doyen
Doyen among young çikolatacı Roberto Toscana'nın role were undertaken by Catinari. Pistoia'da who was born Catinari, work alongside çikolatacı Switzerland in the 1950s have learned. In the case back to the country in 1974 with loads of recipes. A few years later, a small shop which has opened its own name (Via Provinciale, no.378, Agliana; +39-0574 718 506, www.robertocatinari.it). First, he began making chocolate bar, then praline past, soccer trophies increasingly resembles heykelimsi has produced chocolate. This velvety, rich, exquisite chocolate and win at the moment, Chocolate Valley legend has started already ...
Year history based on hundreds of craft tradition in a country proud, the brave step Catinari'nin initiatives. In fact, Italy's history is found in chocolate center Piemonte'nin north. But chic chocolate boutiques La Bottega del Cioccolato'nun in Florence (Via de Macci, No.50; +39-055-200-1609) have Andrea Bianchini, said: "Piemonte chocolate is very traditional ..."
There are two important features of Toscana chocolate. Central Italy 's taste, contains: Lavender, olive oil, and rosemary balsamik. Here, chocolate cocoa beans, cocoa butter, pure vanilla and sugar are made of, that actually Piemonte, in Switzerland or Belgium chocolate is not very different. From South America or Africa, however, brought very high quality of the cocoa is said to be. Back of labor.
He produces the cocoa
A well-known in the village of Pontedera small boutique Pisa'daki the Amedei chocolate (www.amedei.it), South America, like their cocoa produced in the tip. Of chocolate are sold in Florence Amedei'nin. Her sister Cecilia is with the owner Amedei'nin Alessio Tessieri "This is no difference from the wine or cheese," he says. "I learned everything from Venezuelan farmers. Air, rain, altitude, mikroklima the how the product should be collected ..."
Amedei Fabrikası wide from outside, looks like an ordinary farm. Can be entered into with galoshes and bone, everything is sparkling. Alessio Tessieri, some chocolate to seep out of the secret is to travel anywhere to visitors.
On the other side of the valley, formerly a student with Catinari'nin Andrea Slitti'nin shop has Slitti Cioccolato e Caffe (Via Francesca Sud, no.1268; Monsummano Terme; +39-0572-640-240; www.slitti.it). It sold a chocolate shop in a stylish package and a pleasant cafe. Slitti this fall, the shop and there's chocolate courses will soon open a factory. "How about a wine producer is educating consumers, and I will give education about chocolate. Of course I will teach the basics, not everything. Mezar take to have some secrets ..."
Until recently no one Toscana'da chocolate did not do so. Now to eat chocolate in the region has become a regular until machiato caffe. In the last decade Italy's annual chocolate consumption of 4.8 pounds per person reached by folding. Chocolate sales are up 350 million euros. However, Italy's got a feature. Industry and mass production in the face, were always undertaken by families and are craft. Despite the rise in consumption of chocolate may be the only owner of craftsmen that are obsessively smoothly
Pisa'dan a few kilometers away, a small town called Cascina, DeBondt a very good çikolatacı curious to know. The owner of Paul DeBondt here, this small but elegant shop does not sell anything other than never chocolate. And there is chocolate, and are sold to packaging. There are also a larger store DeBondt'un Pisa'da (Lungarno Pacinotti, No. 5; +39-050-316-0073; www.debondtchocolate.com).
Toscana, 20 century in the second half of the world was one of the most popular pleasure centers. Ties, old houses, has attracted tourists to small towns; pasta, the prosciutto'su, wine and cheese known all over the world. Since the 1980s was born here and a chocolate culture. The grinding cocoa beans, and melt the chocolate into a small factory in Florence, Pisa and Montecatini in the triangle between the spread and there was cause attached to the name of Chocolate Valley.
DeBondt Paul says: "To talk Toscanalılar food, food tasting, food is grown to review. I am Dutch. There is no tradition of eating in the Netherlands. I just have a boiled potato is tradition. Haşlanmış here I can not even talk about potatoes. "
ROBERTO CATINARI doyen
Doyen among young çikolatacı Roberto Toscana'nın role were undertaken by Catinari. Pistoia'da who was born Catinari, work alongside çikolatacı Switzerland in the 1950s have learned. In the case back to the country in 1974 with loads of recipes. A few years later, a small shop which has opened its own name (Via Provinciale, no.378, Agliana; +39-0574 718 506, www.robertocatinari.it). First, he began making chocolate bar, then praline past, soccer trophies increasingly resembles heykelimsi has produced chocolate. This velvety, rich, exquisite chocolate and win at the moment, Chocolate Valley legend has started already ...
Year history based on hundreds of craft tradition in a country proud, the brave step Catinari'nin initiatives. In fact, Italy's history is found in chocolate center Piemonte'nin north. But chic chocolate boutiques La Bottega del Cioccolato'nun in Florence (Via de Macci, No.50; +39-055-200-1609) have Andrea Bianchini, said: "Piemonte chocolate is very traditional ..."
There are two important features of Toscana chocolate. Central Italy 's taste, contains: Lavender, olive oil, and rosemary balsamik. Here, chocolate cocoa beans, cocoa butter, pure vanilla and sugar are made of, that actually Piemonte, in Switzerland or Belgium chocolate is not very different. From South America or Africa, however, brought very high quality of the cocoa is said to be. Back of labor.
He produces the cocoa
A well-known in the village of Pontedera small boutique Pisa'daki the Amedei chocolate (www.amedei.it), South America, like their cocoa produced in the tip. Of chocolate are sold in Florence Amedei'nin. Her sister Cecilia is with the owner Amedei'nin Alessio Tessieri "This is no difference from the wine or cheese," he says. "I learned everything from Venezuelan farmers. Air, rain, altitude, mikroklima the how the product should be collected ..."
Amedei Fabrikası wide from outside, looks like an ordinary farm. Can be entered into with galoshes and bone, everything is sparkling. Alessio Tessieri, some chocolate to seep out of the secret is to travel anywhere to visitors.
On the other side of the valley, formerly a student with Catinari'nin Andrea Slitti'nin shop has Slitti Cioccolato e Caffe (Via Francesca Sud, no.1268; Monsummano Terme; +39-0572-640-240; www.slitti.it). It sold a chocolate shop in a stylish package and a pleasant cafe. Slitti this fall, the shop and there's chocolate courses will soon open a factory. "How about a wine producer is educating consumers, and I will give education about chocolate. Of course I will teach the basics, not everything. Mezar take to have some secrets ..."
Until recently no one Toscana'da chocolate did not do so. Now to eat chocolate in the region has become a regular until machiato caffe. In the last decade Italy's annual chocolate consumption of 4.8 pounds per person reached by folding. Chocolate sales are up 350 million euros. However, Italy's got a feature. Industry and mass production in the face, were always undertaken by families and are craft. Despite the rise in consumption of chocolate may be the only owner of craftsmen that are obsessively smoothly
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