The National Museum of the American Indian does a yearly valentines day chocolate festival. If you are not aware, chocolate is indigenous to the Americas. Those Europeans were seriously missing out.There were demonstrations on how chocolate is made, activities for children, and (of course) chocolate for sale. El Ceibo is gourmet chocolate made in Bolivia. I purchased my dark chocolate bar from this lovely lady.
The bar was delicious. It was also $7.00. In 1999, 36% of Bolivians were in extreme poverty (living on less than $1.00 per day). It is still one of the poorest countries in the Americas. These people must think we're insane to pay $7 for a chocolate bar.
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