Buying products is a touchy thing. I'll admit, I've never given much thought on the effects that cheap products puts on farmers on the other end. Most of the time I'm pretty much just looking at the price. I mean most of us do really.
As a child, I'd always get this image of a farmer being some happy fat male in overalls playing the banjo with all the cows and chickens singing. I'd still like to believe singing chickens exist but I'm a bit more realistic when it comes to the nature of farming now: farming is a tough life. I don't think a lot the farmers in other countries choose to be farmers, let alone are happy people.
Of late, there seems to be direction that most coffee suppliers are heading in that they're taking greater consideration in ethics of treating smaller farmers with the emergence of rain forest certified coffee beans and what not. The same is happening with chocolate beans now with Matale chocolate.
Honestly, you won't get much of the secondary flavours if you really aren't thinking into it. What you really notice is the intensity of the cocoa and the smoothness of the finish. Whilst the Malekula tastes a little more ordinary, the somia tastes a little more exotic with a pronounced twang of citrus which is quite nice.
That's enough propaganda for one day. Read into it how you will. In the end Matale Chocolates are delicious, they're made fresh and they're doing it right. Keep up the work guys.
Petit4s recieved products courtesy of Thibault & Eloi from Matale Chocolate
1 comments:
agreed, these chocs were so smooooooooooth! they were actually very nice to eat.
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