Yesterday I had a meeting in the High Park area of Toronto and as I was walking back downtown, I came across this sign:
It is physically impossible for me to resist a Farmer’s Market. Especially after it has been months since I’ve been to one. Unfortunately they had to have it indoors because of the weather, but I didn’t mind in the slightest.
Right away I saw this chocolate booth and I started to drool. The rich aromas coming from the table were purely intoxicating. Chocosol Traders was started by a group of Toronto youth who went down to Mexico to work with local cocoa farmers, and now operate the fair trade company while still being a green operation. They even bike all of the goodies to the farmers markets. You gotta love a company that not only makes a great product, but has consideration for the environment.
The vendor asked me if I wanted a piece and I said my standard “Oh no thank you. I have a nut allergy.”
To which he replied, “Thats okay…we’re nut-free”.
Oh boy. I’m in trouble.
I tried a piece of spicy cayenne chocolate and the crunchy hemp seed one too. I couldn’t believe how delicious it was. It was a little drier than normal chocolate, but incredibly flavourful. Lets just say that they got me hook, line and sinker. There was no way I was leaving without some chocolate in hand.
They also had hot chocolate picks, freshly ground coffee and even raw cacao nibs, which I would love to bake with sometime.
He kindly made me a cup of hot chocolate and I do have to say, that it was pretty amazing. Much more bitter than traditional hot chocolate and it was made with water rather than milk, but it still tasted great.
