The Abc of taste: coffee, chocolate and tea

Courses about the three precious colonial products: coffee, tea and chocolate. From origins to the instructions and secrets about preparations, with useful advices to apply during everyday life. Thanks to Abc of taste, you can discover, in two pleasant hours, the rituals, the secrets, the meaning of those fascinating products. And you can find out original recipes, based on unexpected combinations.
 

Coffee
The only point that historians agree upon is the coffee place of origin: the Abyssinian region of Kaffa, in Africa. Despite the similarity, the name of the beverage is derived instead from the word qahwa, which refers to all vegetable based drinks.
A trip through the world of coffee from the plant to the coffee cup: from botany to the industrial process, from the trade to the to the preservation of the product. The sampling: Espresso, moka and decaffeinated.
 

Chocolate
The chocolate was so precious that Aztecs used it as money and, when it arrived in Europe, chocolate begun the aristocratics favourite drinks.

A course to discover the production process and a little journey in the place where cocoa grows up.
From the plantation to the creation of a rich and fragrant chocolate. More than 800 fragrant mixtures reveal themselves in a play of tastes. A journey of sampling between bitterness, acidity and sweetness to appreciate the body and the delicacy of the proposed cocoas.
 

Tea
A product with a thousand-year culture, an historical ritual in Great Britain (the five o’clock tea). A course to discover all the secrets of a brew that is one of the most appreciated drinks.
 
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