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Amazing place! Great selection of delicious chocolate exported from Venezuela! This is a mandatory stop if you are in the area!
Sweet Sector - a look at four chocolate makers in the Hill Country
El Rey is the king of the chocolate kingdom. They’ve been making cacao in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, for nearly a century and they’ve been in the Texas Hill Country since 1993.
Many people associate chocolate with countries like Switzerland and Belgium, and of course, they do make wonderful chocolate. But all of the cacao beans come from the west coast of Africa or countries near the equator, since cacao only grows in a small temperature latitude. There are three major kinds of cacao beans, just like varietals of wine: criollo—the best but not easy to grow and not disease tolerant; forestero—easy to grow and tolerant; and trinatario—a hybrid of the two with...