Not just chocolate, xocolata
We never made chocolate desserts when I was in cooking school in Barcelona twenty years ago. Don’t get me wrong. The Catalans love the stuff, and so do the Spaniards: bread and chocolate have probably been the entire peninsula’s favorite after-school snack since around 1500, when Cortez came back to Spain with a freighter-sized stash he got from the Aztecs. But my teachers frowned on chocolate as too heavy to take center stage in an after-dinner role. (more…)