You'll have to forgive us for not updating the blog lately. August is always busy and the time just seems to have flown by and we're finally sorting out all these great Summer '08 pictures...

We tried something a little different for our weekly cooking class last week: making chocolate from scratch! Here in Oaxaca, there are many molinos, or chocolate "mills", where you can get your mix of cacao beans, sugar, etc., to make chocolate from scratch! We chose a slightly-less sweet mixture than you might find in regular Oaxacan chocolate de mesa.

The students had a great time making their own designs and, of course, we all enjoyed eating the artistic creations! Oaxaca is famous for its chocolate and the word "chocolate" itself is from the indigenous Nahuatl language: chocoatl.