Sahagun's Palomitapapa - 71% Dark Chocolate w/ Exploded Corn
Talent blended with bravery. Or better put, genius married to utter fearlessness. Sahagun defies every expectation, creating flavors that are wildly delicious and at the same time, just plain yummy.
Sahagun’s Palomitapapa is a savory and just sweet enough chocolate bark that will, alas, leave you hopelessly addicted. 71% bittersweet chocolate with exploded corn, and ground chile japones dusted with our own O Prado Fino sea salt. The chile japones is grown in own father's garden. We are extremely happy that Sahagun’s Elizabeth Montes has brought some of her wonderful creations to The Meadow.
Each piece is hand made, and weights vary. If placing your order for Sahagun over the internet here, just choose the amount you wish to spend and we will select the chocolate pieces.
About Sahagun:
Elizabeth Montes started making chocolates nearly ten years ago as gifts for her friends and family. Montes believes that visual beauty is helpful in convincing people that chocolate could be a thing to approach with reverence. "When people see the human thought and labor you put into making something, it's rare that they don't respond to it with greater attention and care." She wants to decelerate the tempo of chocolate consumption to increase satisfaction and awareness even if only for a moment or two.
Montes began selling her chocolate morsels at the Portland Farmer's Market, a place she soon found to be a fresh foods paradise offering indeed the best of the Northwest. To name a few ingredients she combines with base Venezuelan chocolate are: Sundance Farm's Hidcote and Grosso lavender, Marion berries from nearby Sauvie Island, Royal Ann cherries from Rickreall, Stumptown's expertly-roasted coffees, orange mint and rose geranium from a treasured private herb patch. She has come to rely on real spices, seasonal herbs and fresh fruit flavors (not flavorings) to create pure tastes, usually limiting flavor ingredients to one or two in order to avoid obliterating chocolate's intrinsic flavor.
