“Found throughout Latin America, South Asia, the West Indies and the Philippines, Muscovado was once considered a peasant’s sugar due to its simplistic, minimal processing and accessibility. Made from sugar cane juice, it is a sticky, coarse, unrefined sugar, with a rich molasses flavour and a dark brown hue. This special release bar is neither a dark, nor a white chocolate, but a new, tanned chocolate made from Philippine muscovado sugar, cacao butter, and roasted Philippine cacao nibs, which are ground into the chocolate and sprinkled on the back.
The chocolate cover art was illustrated in the Philippines by our friend and Vancouver-based artist Isabel Fernandez during a recent trip to her hometown in Tanay, Rizal.
‘Morena’ is a term introduced from the Old World to describe Filipinas with tanned or brown skin. ‘Reyna’ is both Spanish and Tagalog for ‘Queen’.”
Kasama Chocolate is a group of friends from Vancouver; Stefan, Dom, Oliver and Vince, who started making small batch, bean-to-bar chocolate with cocoa from the Philippines in 2015.
It all started when Vince’s dad, Mario, sent a picture of himself holding what he thought were mangoes on their small family property in the northern Philippines. They weren’t mangoes though, they were cacao pods hanging from the branches of a cacao tree.
One fateful evening, the friends decided to meet up for beers at their favourite watering hole in Vancouver, a weekly ritual at the time. Vince nonchalantly broke the news about cacao pods growing on the family property. It wasn’t a big deal until Stefan and Oliver suggested that it would be great if Mario could bring back some samples to see and taste. A month later, they had a ziplock bag full of dried, fermented cacao beans from the Cagayan Valley. And what do you do with cacao beans? You make chocolate of course! And so began their adventure into the world of bean-to-bar chocolate making.
Kasama is a word which means friendship, camaraderie and collaboration.
Kasama's award winning chocolate is hand-crafted in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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