From Coca To Cacao

February 5, 2010

In a surprise to many in the chocolate world, the October 2009 Salon du Chocolat in Paris, awarded “most aromatic” to chocolate made from cacao beans from Peru.  The event is an annual summit of master chocolatiers.  About a decade ago in Peru a program was started to help farmers replace their coca plants (used to make cocaine) with cacao plants (used to make chocolate).  While the start of the program was meager with only 12 farmers, there are currently hundreds.  The lush tropics with rainforests and the Andes mountains make perfect growing conditions for the bean.  Peru is now hoping to be known for chocolate like Colombia is known for coffee. click here for limerick

Gearing up for Laundry

April 25, 2009

For the 600 kids at La Sagrada Familia Orphanage in Peru, laundry day was hours of hard work washing the more than 2 tons of dirty clothes each week.  Much of that has changed with the introduction of the bici-lavadora, a $125 washing machine that is gaining more and more use in third-world countries.  As Daniel Sieberg of CBS News reports, the bici-lavadora was created in MIT’s experimental D-Lab where students look for simple solutions to third-world problems.  The bici-lavadora is a steel drum filled with clothes, water, and soap and then powered by a person riding an attached bicycle.  (Bici is from bicicleta, Spanish for bike, and lavadora, Spanish for washing machine.) click here for limerick

 

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