June, 2007
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Segovia
June 6 – 7, 2007 Here we enjoy our chocolate at a place that also serves teas, coffees and ice creams. Madrid Aguilar de Campóo
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Madrid
June 4, 2007 We start our chocolate tour of Spain with Chocolateria San Ginés in Madrid, with what Steve Reeves calls the best hot chocolate in Spain. It is extremely thick, as if drinking/eating chocolate pudding, and is not served with whipped cream. I learned, as we continued, that the Spanish often call hot chocolate
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Chocolate Welcomes Us to Spain
Chocolate, Jews and Spain share a long history. Spanish royalty enjoyed the Aztec drink Spanish explorers discovered in the early 1500s. It became so popular in Spain of the 16th and 17th centuries that chocolate houses, like cafés, developed everywhere. Similar houses still exist today in most of Spain’s major cities. Spaniards guarded their
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