It has been nice to get out. As I wrote yesterday, I did win a door prize at Knit City, a $90 special knitting bag. The information about it was added to the October 14 post as a post script. On Sunday I had signed up to take a candy making class at Cocoa Nymph in downtown Vancouver. It was a rainy day so staying inside for 2.5 hours was a good idea, even better was the fact I got to stay in a candy shop that smelled so wonderfully chocolaty. The Cocoa Nymph found at 4 West 7th Avenue The lesson began by outlining the process of taking a cocoa bean from the tree (where it grows on the trunk) to a usable format, something much more complicated than I realized. We also got a brief history of chocolate. Chocolate, as we know it, has been around for about 150 years; however, there's evidence it was used as early as 1900 BC. We had a tasting of a single source Mexican, Cuban and African chocolate. It was amazing how differently eac...
Getting it together one stitch at a time.