Re: The untimate chocolate

Hi, Kitty.

All my wives have been teachers, more or less [your patient, Dr Freud]. And I've done, as a consequence of marital coercion, more than my share of trying to convince the 8-year-old children of sharecroppers that they didn't have to pick tobacco for the rest of their lives. That was Maryland; this is Florida--we don't have anywhere near as many children as intellectually hungry in Florida as Maryland does among its tobacco sharecropper children.

On Wednesday, January 26, 2005, at 05:55 PM, kmrsy@comcast.net wrote:

Oh, Jim, you brought up the C word....you're going to have Melody going
nuts! Really, it does sound like a fun project. maybe Ms. Fatma will let
you join her clas for show & tell.

Kitty

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Just received a ripe chocolate [Theobroma cacao] fruit from a friend of
mine in Puerto Rico. After taking its picture and whacking it open, I
scooped out the seeds and put them in a glass of more-or-less pure
water to ferment. The seeds are incased in tart membranes that are most
easily removed by fermenting. When the fermentation is finished, I'm
going to plant a few of the seeds to see if I can grow a chocolate tree
in my front patio microclimate [doubt it] and roast and grind the rest
to make raw chocolate. This sounds like a grammar school science
project; too bad [just kidding] I don't have that age kids any more.

Island Jim
Southwest Florida
27.0 N, 82.4 W
Zone 10a
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
Maximum 100 F [38 C]

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Island Jim
Southwest Florida
27.0 N, 82.4 W
Zone 10a
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
Maximum 100 F [38 C]

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