In India, people cook with a lot of spice and the food always has excellent flavor! In South India we went to visit a spice garden to see the kinds of spices that are grown for export and use in the kitchen! We went to Abraham's garden and then, his wife cooked us an authentic Indian meal. Of course, we ate it with our hands because that is the way it is done in India!
Ever wonder where your chocolate comes from? Well, according to Abraham It comes from his back yard! Chocolate actually comes from cocoa tree! That's right, your Cadbury chocolate bar starts off growing on a tree! Let's look at it.
Inside that big fruit is our chocolate! The pod contains 20 to 60 seeds, usually called "beans", embedded in a white pulp. The pulp ( like on an orange) actually tasted quite good! But the cocoa powder used for chocolate is inside the bean.
We found all sorts of other delights in this garden as well, like cinnamon and peppers, coffee trees, ginger, durian fruits.... As we were walking through the garden I decided to chew on a cinnamon leaf!
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