Chocolate - second day of Homestay

As you already know, Ecuador is the home of the chocolate bean. Today we made chocolate - Roasting the beans, shelling them, grinding them, and adding the paste to milk and sugar (from local cows and sugar cane) and boiling it until it was a fondue into which we dipped sliced bananas. Everyone here has all four (the trees, the cows, the bananas, and the sugar cane). We did most of this in the hammock shelter.

Later, Delfin and his family showed us a few of the traditions of the area.