Hand up to anyone who thinks that coffee goes very well with chocolate 馃檵, as well as combined with rum. And what if we mix the 3? Sounds like it tastes great right?
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Because I know that many in this community may like it today I bring you a very photographic post of a fabulous fair held in July in the city of Caracas: "La Exposici贸n de Cacao y Ron 2022". I went with my family and we took the opportunity to have a delicious mocachino coffee with chocolate.
I know that this is going to seem like a very good combination and here I tell you the reason why this exhibition was held in my city.
Venezuela, since colonial times, has been an important producer of coffee, cocoa, and sugar cane from which, besides sweetening our existence (and also making us sick), rum is produced from the cane. For those who are not very familiar with the Caribbean, rum is a very popular alcoholic beverage in these latitudes.
This map shows the areas where cocoa is grown in Venezuela. The map was in the exhibition of Chocolates El Rey.
The problem is that since the discovery of oil, all the productive capacity and investment, both national and foreign, has been concentrated in the energy sector, and in this way, with so many natural capacities, our industrial diversification has been held back, preventing us from becoming a developing country with a diverse economy.
Adversities have led us to seek within our soils our economic resurgence so that we are promoting from below the agricultural industries of these items that I mention and it has been shown that we can bring to the world coffee, chocolate, and rum of the highest quality to delight the palates of the citizens of the earth.
With this diagram they explained the way the plants are arranged in the crops.
In the month of May there was a coffee exhibition which I already posted in this community. And now then we could enjoy this new exhibition of a much larger magnitude, held in a very large park.
The idea was to show these two items the complete productive chain of each one and I was delighted that the children could appreciate the farmers' exhibits and understand how the cocoa plantations are arranged, we even bought three small cocoa plants to take home.
Cocoa seedlings and fruits
They also had everything ready to observe how the sugar cane plantations are set up and live on-site they cut the fresh cane and processed it so we could taste a refreshing and sweet cane juice.
Sugar cane and rum are extracted from the sugar cane
After these primary phases of production, the exhibition was divided into two large temporary sheds built for this purpose. In one were the exhibitors producing rum and one of the highlights here were the live cocktail preparation shows.
The second shed was a giant chocolate shop, where there were more than 50 exhibitors of all kinds of processed cocoa, bonbons, chocolates, nibs, cocoa shells to prepare infusions, chocolate desserts, and a variety of products, including some for personal care.
The rum, chocolate and conference sheds can be seen in the background.
In a third shed, academic activities, lectures, forums, and all these types of activities were held, which were beneficial for the public and producers at all levels of the production chain.
It was an event that lasted about 4 days and was of the great demand for the inhabitants of our city and the surrounding area. So much so that you cannot imagine what happened. We decided to go on Saturday and there was no parking available in the park, but not only that, there was a line of vehicles to get in that any Venezuelan would think was for gasoline. Seriously, the people who wanted to enter made a very long line to park their vehicles.
Our arrival
We solved it like this: the kids, my sister, and I got out of the car at the park's gate and my husband and brother-in-law went to park in a nearby shopping mall and they caught up with us walking.
In the parking lot of the park, there was a bus to take people to the place in the park where the exhibition was taking place because it was quite a long way.
The family enjoying the exhibition
When we arrived at the place there was a lot of enthusiasm, people wanting to have fun and have a good time. And to achieve this goal there was everything: a stage for musical shows, fast food area and a bar area for drinks, ah and something very important a playground for children with inflatables, trampolines, mechanical horse, augmented reality, and more. All very complete for the whole family, so in our case it was perfect.
Photo gallery
Fortunately, the area was very large and a large number of people present was diluted, except for the chocolate shop shed where at times I thought I could not breathe because inside the influx was very high and the density of people in the area was overflowing to enter there people made another line.
But it was worth it, the exhibitors were very careful in presenting their products and they ranged from artisanal to industrialized levels.
My favorite: The coffee bonbon
We could decide which chocolates to try but eat them when we were in the outside area because it was not a good idea to take off our mouths.
We were looking for suppliers to manufacture the chocolate teque帽os that we sell with Tekees眉 our venture and believe me there are plenty of options for quality and good prices, we tried several options and the decision is difficult because of how good they are.
Fortunately, we have varieties of cocoa depending on the area of the country where it is grown, they even say that the best in the world grows in the area south of Lake Maracaibo, the best cocoa is exported and this is important for all Venezuelans, the best chocolate brands known in the world use it.
Delicate and aromatic bonbons
I hope that our chocolate producers continue to grow and position their brands. Probably when you buy your favorite chocolates around the world these could be made with Venezuelan cocoa.
Enjoy your coffee with chocolate and rum.
隆Aho!
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Que Levante la mano a quien le parece que el caf茅 va muy bien con chocolate 馃檵, al igual que combinado con ron. 驴Y que tal si mezclamos los 3? 驴Suena a qu茅 sabe muy bien verdad?.
Por qu茅 se que a muchos en esta comunidad les puede gustar hoy les traigo un post muy fotogr谩fico de una feria fabulosa realizada en el mes de julio en la ciudad de Caracas: "La Exposici贸n de Cacao y Ron 2022" a la que fui con mi familia y aprovechamos de tomarnos un rico cafe mocachino que lleva chocolate.
Se que esto les va a parecer muy buena combinaci贸n y aqu铆 les cuento el motivo por el que se realiz贸 est谩 exposici贸n en mi ciudad.
Venezuela, desde los tiempos de la colonia ha sido un importante productor de caf茅, cacao y ca帽a de az煤car de la cual adem谩s de endulzarnos la existencia (y tambi茅n enfermarnos) de la ca帽a se produce el ron, que para quienes no est茅n muy familiarizados con el Caribe, est谩 es una bebida alcoh贸lica muy popular por est谩s latitudes.
En este mapa se observan las zonas donde se cultiva cacao en Venezuela. El mapa estaba en la exposici贸n de Chocolates El Rey
Lo que pasa es que desde que se descubri贸 el petr贸leo toda la capacidad productiva y de inversi贸n tanto nacional como extranjera se concentr贸 en el sector energ茅tico y de esta forma con tantas capacidades naturales se mantuvo frenada nuestra diversificaci贸n industrial impidiendo nos convertirnos en un pa铆s en v铆as de desarrollo con una econom铆a diversa.
Las adversidades nos han llevado a buscar dentro de nuestros suelos nuestro resurgir econ贸mico de manera que se est谩n impulsando desde abajo las industrias agr铆colas de estos rubros que menciono y se ha demostrado que podemos llevar al mundo caf茅, chocolate y ron de primera calidad para deleitar los paladares de los ciudadanos de la tierra.
Con este diagrama nos explicaron la forma en que se disponen las plantas en los cultivos
En este sentido ya se realiz贸 en el mes de mayo una exposici贸n de caf茅 de la cual publiqu茅 mi experiencia en esta comunidad. Y ahora entonces pudimos disfrutar de esta nueva exposici贸n de una magnitud mucho mayor, realizada en un parque muy extenso.
La idea era mostrar para estos dos rubros la cadena productiva completa de cada uno y me encant贸 que los ni帽os pudieran apreciar las exposiciones de los agricultores y entender como se disponen las plantaciones de cacao, incluso compramos tres plantas peque帽as de cacao para llevarnos a casa.
Pl谩ntulas y frutos de cacao
Tambi茅n ten铆an todo preparado para observar como son las plantaciones de ca帽a de az煤car y en vivo en el lugar cortaban la ca帽a fresca y la procesaban para que pudi茅ramos probar un refrescante y dulce jugo de ca帽a.
De la ca帽a se extrae el az煤car y tambi茅n el ron
Luego de est谩s fases primarias de producci贸n se divid铆a la exposici贸n en dos grandes galpones temporales construidos para esto. En uno se encontraban los expositores productores de Ron y uno de los puntos llamativos aqu铆 eran los show de preparaci贸n de c贸cteles en vivo.
El segundo galp贸n era una chocolater铆a gigante, donde se encontraban m谩s de 50 expositores de todas las ganas de cacao procesado, bombones, chocolates, nibs, c谩scaras de cacao para preparar infusiones, postres de chocolate y una variedad de productos que inclu铆an algunos para el cuidado personal.
Detr谩s se aprecian los galpones del ron, chocolate y conferencias
En un tercer galp贸n se realizaban actividades acad茅micas, ponencias, foros y todo este tipo de actividades provechosas para el p煤blico y los productores de todos los niveles de las cadena productivas.
Fue un evento que dur贸 unos 4 d铆as, y result贸 de gran demanda para los habitantes de nuestra ciudad y los alrededores. Tanto que no se pueden imaginar lo que pas贸. Decidimos ir el d铆a s谩bado y no hab铆a estacionamiento disponible en el parque, pero no solo eso, hab铆a una cola de veh铆culos para entrar que a cualquier venezolano le parecer铆a que era para la gasolina. En serio, las personas deseosas de entrar hicieron una cola largu铆sima para estacionar sus veh铆culos.
Nuestra llegada
Nosotros resolvimos eso as铆: los ni帽os, mi hermana y yo nos bajamos del auto en la puerta del parque y mi esposo y mi cu帽ado fueron a estacionar en un centro comercial cercano y nos alcanzaron caminando.
En el estacionamiento del parque hab铆a un autob煤s para llevar a las personas hasta el lugar del parque donde se desarrollaba la exposici贸n porque era un trayecto bastante largo.
La familia disfrutando la exposici贸n
Al llegar al lugar se respiraba mucho entusiasmo, gente con ganas de divertirse y pasarla bien. Y para lograr este objetivo hab铆a de todo: una tarima para espect谩culos musicales, 谩rea de comidas r谩pidas y 谩rea de bares para tomar tragos, ahhh y algo muy importante un parque para ni帽os con inflables, trampolines, potro mec谩nico, realidad aumentada y m谩s. Todo muy completo para toda la familia, as铆 que en nuestro caso fue perfecto.
Foto galer铆a
Afortunadamente el 谩rea era muy extensa y la gran cantidad de personas presentes se dilu铆a, a excepci贸n del galp贸n de la chocolater铆a d贸nde por momentos pens茅 que no pod铆a respirar porque dentro la afluencia si era muy alta y la densidad de personas en el 谩rea era desbordante, de hecho para entrar all铆 las personas hacian otra fila.
Pero val铆a la pena, los expositores eran muy esmerados en presentar sus productos y se encontraban desde niveles artesanales hasta industrializados.
Pod铆amos decidir que bombones probar pero para comerlos al estar en el 谩rea de afuera porque all铆 no era buena idea quitarse el tapaboca.
Mi preferido: El bomb贸n de caf茅
Estuvimos buscando proveedores para fabricar los teque帽os de chocolate que vendemos con Tekees眉 nuestro emprendimiento y creanme que sobran las opciones de calidad y buenos precios, probamos varias opciones y la decisi贸n esta dif铆cil por lo buenos que son.
Afortunadamente contamos con variedades de cacao dependiendo de la zona del pa铆s donde se cultive, incluso dicen que la mejor del mundo crece en la zona del sur del lago de Maracaibo, el mejor cacao sale como exportaci贸n y esto es importante para todos los venezolanos, las mejores marcas de chocolate conocidas en el mundo lo utilizan.
Delicados y arom谩ticos bombones
Espero que nuestros productores de chocolate sigan creciendo y posicionando sus marcas. Probablemente cuando compras tus chocolates favoritos en todo el mundo estos podr铆an estar hechos con cacao venezolano.
Disfruta tu caf茅 con chocolate y ron.
Aho!
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