Spicy Chocolate Just For You

Tabasco Chocolate, hmmm hmmm. Well that is a hmmm hmmm if you like things a little spicy. I haven't had the pleasure of sampling Tabasco Chocolate, it didn't take my fancy because I'm not a fan of spice and perhaps that is my Anglo Saxon genes. This is only guess work, I have no idea about the food history of my ancestors and so I should probably make an effort to learn about this and while I am at it, about the history of chocolate too.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h4ZrUnBGYc Here is part 1 of 4, the History Channel, The History of Chocolate, and parts 2-4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI4URYxjwc0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvK4s1j-tZ8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTrAPOXPECk It's about 45 mins of documentary, fun to watch and interesting.  So now for Scotland: http://alliemacb.hubpages.com/hub/The-History-of-Scottish-Food and some recipes where salt, ginger, turmeric, paprika,  green chillies, cumin and garam masala are all used: http://www.scotland.org/celebrate-scotland/recipes/haggis-with-a-neeps-and-tattie-tikki So there you go, spices and chilly were used across the colder countries and so that is one theory out the window. Chillies and chocolate, great things about the world of food.

SUGARBEE XX    02/05/13