Spain chocolate from Columbo
Some people say that the Spaniards in the "life can't lose chocolate" on this point, the attitude of the same. The Spaniard for chocolate culture, has risen to the height of belief.
Sweet life such as the average annual consumption of 3 kilograms of chocolate. Although several German and other European countries, leading to Spain, but the Spaniards do not convinced that if the chocolate variety, how many countries can be compared? For example, the Spanish breakfast, a Deep-Fried Dough Sticks dip in chocolate, many tourists are attracted tasting. In fact, the local Deep-Fried Dough Sticks from South America, but to Spain, local people feel in the taste of rich chocolate, with a cup of coffee, taste is really first-class. The most important thing is that chocolate is really cheap in Spain, so two or three euros as a breakfast, everyone can afford a popular delicacy.
Visiting the market in Spain, most of the time is in fact around the chocolate market stalls covered with different taste of chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate 50%, 70% dark chocolate, milk chocolate, sugar free sugar free 54% dark chocolate and so on, dizzying. From the 2008 recession along the way the Spaniards remember, when the market has hit a "recession is chocolate truffle", the businessman to inspirational products, to encourage everyone to eat a recession, optimistic". Simple packaging, delicious chocolate with a rare few Spaniards has been left with a pregnant meaning, wrapping paper, treasure this memory.
Every October 12th, is Spain's national day, this is the memory of Columbo arrived in the American continent in 1492. In Spain, you can buy a AMATLLER brand of chocolate, it is printed on the packaging of Spain in the heyday of the age of sail boats. In early sixteenth Century, when Columbo came to Mexico, found the local Aztec King drank a cocoa and flavored water beverage "Cortes" and personally taste, then back to Spain in 1528. From the Spanish learned the beans into powder, add water and sugar, heating after drinking, this is known as the "chocolate" drinks by the Spaniards welcome. Soon after, this drink by the Italians followed, and soon spread throughout europe.
This makes the Spaniards all recorded in history, the country big and small in Chocolate museum. In Spain, Chocolate Museum, few countries and. The country's southeast northwest all have a large Chocolate Museum, and different styles. Among them, Barcelona Chocolate Museum features chocolate sculpture. The museum has the Holy Family Cathedral, Don Quixote, SpongeBob SquarePants and other visitors of different age known chocolate sculpture.
The capital of Catalonia in the center of Barcelona, Li Qiu pedestrian street, around the shops and hot chocolate Chocolate Coffee Museum, thick chocolate to remind visitors, here is the local chocolate manufacturing center.