Sunday was the third time I’ve taken part in a cacao ceremony. Previously I’d had the ceremony at home but the last time I co-hosted a group through the ceremony. As the cacao ceremony was combined with a chocolate workshop, there are some things I’d do differently next time (like offer a cacao ceremony without the chocolate) but there are always going to be details to iron out. Anyhoo, it was a powerful experience to share the cacao with a group of people. It was also quite amusing that my insistence cacao would not taste like hot chocolate fell mainly on deaf ears until they tried it. Cacao is bitter. It’s a bitter medicine. It most definitely isn’t hot chocolate The seed pods from the cacao plant are harvested, broken apart and left until the fleshy part has fermented and run off as a liquid. Then the beans are washed, cleaned, dried, peeled and broken into nibs (small pieces). The nibs are then pressed to make cacao butter and what’s left after that is milled into a fine powder. It’s this powder that’s used in the cacao ceremony to make a drink. Cacao is full of good stuff like antioxidants, vitamin C, vitamin […]
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