Anyone heard of this Chocolatier/Chocolate?

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Permalink Reply by Clay Gordon on February 2, 2008 at 11:53pm

Don Puglisi makes chocolate that is very similar to the Antica Dolceria Bonajuto bars. While I ran across Bonajuto in New York at Dean and Deluca, I first found the Don Puglisi at Bittersweet Cafe in San Francisco. I have the label somewhere in my collection. There is a forum thread on Bonajuto here.

I ran the first paragraph on the "la cioccolata" page through translate.google.com and this is the result:

The history of chocolate modican starts from distant places and times, from "failure" between Cortez and Montezuma, in 1519. It is said that the Aztec leader, as a sign of friendship, has offered a drink made up of cocoa beans coarsely chopped, with the addition of water, maize flour, chili, cinnamon and anise seeds. Drink welcome because little bitter. In fact, I first of Spaniards innovation was to add sugar cane.

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Permalink Reply by Sera on February 3, 2008 at 12:23am

Thanks Clay! It sounds so interesting, can't wait to try it!

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Permalink Reply by Chocoflyer on February 3, 2008 at 4:55pm

Sounds a lot like the Mexican type chocolate by IBARRA (red and yellow pkg) that comes in "hockey puck" size wafers, divided to cut like a pizza, that you add to warm milk over the stove, mix and melt all together - makes a killer hot chocolate! Its just cocoa mass, sugar, and cinnamon- very simple- but not meant for eating straight. Has not been conched at all- very grainy. I would like to try Don Puglisi- Did you try to make the hot cocoa?

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Permalink Reply by Sera on February 4, 2008 at 10:05am

Yes, they do look very similar! I'm happy to see Ibarra put nutritional information for theirs, ha ha. ;)

I haven't tried it yet, I'm pacing myself! I'll report back when I do. :)

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