Making Chocolate

There is a Chocolate Museum that recently opened in Granada, where you can take lessons in how to make chocolate. The classes aren't cheap, so I deliberately held out until this week to take one. We learned all about how chocolate grows, how the beans are harvested and roasted, and how the ancient Mayans, Aztecs, and eventually Spanish made hot chocolate. (Little-known fact: liquid cocoa has been around for over a thousand years, but bar chocolate was only invented after industrialization.) We got to make - and drink - all three kinds of cocoa, and to make bar chocolate too, with our own additives. (I chose rum.)