Visit ruins? Wander around a museum looking at ancient artifacts? Nope!
I found the Choco-museo ... where you could take a workshop and learn the history of Chocolate in South America! Score!!
After a quick trip to Pizza Hut for lunch (peruvian street fare is not very safe, and not exceptionally appealing to my less-than-adventurous eating companion) ... we walked to the Museo.
We got to roast cocoa beans in a clay pot, then separate the beans from the husks:
Pound them into paste with a mortar & pestle :
Make both Mexican (no milk, but with hot pepper powder) & Spanish hot chocolate (yes milk with cinnamon & cloves) :
And then proceeded on to the fun and mess:
And finito!
so true :
Hopefully, we will be able to keep from eating all the chocolate, Jed asked to try some ... !
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