The smell of vanilla beans and roasted coffee, blended with fresh roses created an aromatic atmosphere for Valentine’s Day at a chocolate workshop in Hanalei.
About a dozen chocolate enthusiasts journeyed from as far as Kalaheo on Saturday to participate in the five-hour intensive workshop all about cocoa, taught by Koa Kahili, cacao farmer and chocolate maker of the Garden Island Chocolate Company.
The sweet aroma of chocolate lingered in the air as Dr. Christopher Lyden, one of the participants Saturday, reminisced of his travels to France.
“I had chocolate while I was there and it was really good chocolate,” he said. “In the morning, you would either have espresso or chocolate chaud which is not hot chocolate like we have, it’s not a powder, it’s melted chocolate with a pitcher of hot milk and you combine them as you wish.”
Source: Coco Zickos, The Garden Island
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