The Bitter Truth About Chocolate
Wed, Apr 05
|Sankofa Video, Books, & Café
Join us for a candid conversation about how the African Diaspora can use chocolate to help play an essential role in building a brighter future throughout the African Diaspora.
Time & Location
Apr 05, 2023, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Sankofa Video, Books, & Café, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
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About The Event
About the company:
SPAGnVOLA (pronounced as spang—vola): The name is derived from a 16th century voyage map of the island of Hispaniola, known today as the Dominican Republic and Haiti. In honor of the island Hispaniola, its people and culture, Crisoire and I dared to achieve the impossible. We have realized our dream - Hacienda de SPAGnVOLA - where the soil, seed, rain and sun consistently produce exquisite cacao beans. We utilize only the finest beans grown from our estate in Hato Mayor Del Rey, located on the eastern part of the Dominican Republic. It is there that you will find the purest environmental conditions resulting in the richest organic soil found on mountain slopes that are endowed with plentiful rainfall.
We cultivate and process our own cacao beans the traditional way, by hand-picking perfectly ripened pods, fermenting them, drying them and grading them ourselves. We do this to insure…
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