Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Chocolate

If you don't know how much I love chocolate, maybe this will tell you:
Yesterday I went to the coffee shop Café de Indias close to where I go to school to try the hot chocolate which I have heard so much about and to do some homework. Café de Indias (Indias like the West Indies, not like the nation) is a chain of coffee shops that started here in Sevilla and has begun to spread to other parts of Spain. It is like a café plus specialty bakery plus ice cream shop plus coffee shop plus bar (well, everyone serves alcohol in Spain, even their McDonald's). I had heard a lot about the hot chocolate here in Spain, especially from the Café de Indias, so I ordered a glass. It was unbelievably delicious, like nothing I have ever tasted-- almost as if they had melted semi-sweet chocolate chips and added a little bit of milk to thin it out. Spain's version of what I know as hot chocolate (warm water or milk with cocoa powder) is called Cola-Cao, and it is also very good and more rich than the "Nestle" or "Swiss Miss" versions I am familiar with, but this hot chocolate was something else entirely. The Spanish usually drink this kind with churros (churros con chocolate). I didn't know something like that existed, and now I fear my life will never be the same.


3 comments:

  1. When your dad said you missed your chocolate, I wasn't too worried -- I knew that you would soon find churros con chocolate!!

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  2. Hello, if you wish to try a real sevillian "chocolate con churros" you should go to "virgen de los reyes" it's near "la cruz del campo" what is the start of a XVI century "via crucis" also nearby is the brewery of the "cruzcampo" beer.

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