[Sca-cooks] Cioccolato di Modica

[Stefan li Rous]

Aahita replied to me with:
> Stefan li Rous wrote:
> > Gianotta asked:
> >> I'm engaged in a spirited, uh, debate with someone on another list
> >> about Sicilian gastronomy. In researching my rebuttal I came across
> >> mentions of chocolate made in Modica, Sicily. There, chocolate is 
> made
> >> like the Aztecs did it; cacao beans ground against stone, mixed with
> >> sugar (of course the Aztecs would have used honey)
> >
> > But since the honey bee is a European import, any honey the Aztecs
> > would have used would have been from a different insect.
>
> Well, according to Sophie Coe in "America's First Cuisines", the
> Mayas actually created hives for the indigenous American bees. They
> are not the honey bees of Europe, but they do make honey.
Thak you. This is cotrary to everythig I had ee hearig, ut you acked it 
up with citatios.

Stefa
   (Sorry my keyoard seems to e havig prolems agai @#$#$%%!)
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