Casa Cacao
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Casa Cacao

The Return Trip to the Origin of Chocolate

Jordi Roca, Ignacio Medina

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  2. English
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Casa Cacao

The Return Trip to the Origin of Chocolate

Jordi Roca, Ignacio Medina

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About This Book

El Celler de Can Roca is the restaurant in Girona, Spain opened in 1986 by the Roca brothers: Joan, Josep and Jordi. It holds three Michelin stars and in 2013, 2015, 2018 it was named the best restaurant in the world by Restaurant magazine. Jordi Roca is currently one of the world's most advanced chocolatiers, and was proclaimed best pastry chef in the world in the 2014, 50 Best Awards. This book shows Jordi's search for the origins of cocoa and his journey to discover how to master chocolate for the creation of new, totally revolutionary desserts. He travels through cocoa fields in Colombia, Peru and Ecuador to meet producers both in the interior of the jungle and in the new areas that produce some of the most prestigious cocoa on the market. He learns about the nature of the so called creole cacao, native to the Amazon rainforest, the characteristics of the crop and the way in which the cocoa cob ends up being transformed into the fermented and dry bean from which we obtain our chocolate. With this background, Jordi returns to his chocolate workshop in Girona and gives a new twist to his creative work, undertaking unique creations with the cocoas that he has collected over the course of his travels through the different countries of Latin America. The book includes 40 recipes, formulas and totally new creative ideas with cocoa as the mainstay of desserts, chocolates and ice cream. A National Geographic documentary on Jordi Roca's research into the world of cocoa in Latin America is currently being filmed.

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Publisher
Grub Street Cookery
Year
2019
ISBN
9781911667759
Topic
Arte
Subtopic
Artes culinarias

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Book Title
  4. CONTENTS
  5. WE ARE THE ORIGINAL OWNERS OF CACAO
  6. BEFORE CHOCOLATE, AFTER CACAO
  7. A GREAT OPPORTUNITY
  8. 1 A BEGINNING TO EVERYTHING
  9. 2 CACAO’S JOURNEY HOME
  10. 3 JOURNEY TO THE SOURCES OF CACAO
  11. 4 CHOCOLATE BEGINS WITH THE PLANT
  12. 5 CASA CACAO
  13. 6 A NEW LIFE FOR CHOCOLATE
  14. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  15. INDEX OF RECIPES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
  16. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Citation styles for Casa Cacao

APA 6 Citation

Roca, J., & Medina, I. (2019). Casa Cacao ([edition unavailable]). Grub Street Cookery. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/3736278 (Original work published 2019)

Chicago Citation

Roca, Jordi, and Ignacio Medina. (2019) 2019. Casa Cacao. [Edition unavailable]. Grub Street Cookery. https://www.perlego.com/book/3736278.

Harvard Citation

Roca, J. and Medina, I. (2019) Casa Cacao. [edition unavailable]. Grub Street Cookery. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/3736278 (Accessed: 25 June 2024).

MLA 7 Citation

Roca, Jordi, and Ignacio Medina. Casa Cacao. [edition unavailable]. Grub Street Cookery, 2019. Web. 25 June 2024.