Modica chocolate

Sicilian Chocolate

Andrea Critti - CC2.0

Modica PGI chocolate is obtained from a particular "cold" processing of the chocolate which excludes the conching phase. It is a unique chocolate in the world, which is produced only in the Sicilian town. At the bite, the still intact grains of sugar surprise. Some sources report that during the domination of the Spaniards in Sicily in the sixteenth century this processing was introduced in the County of Modica, at that time the most important feudal state in southern Italy, endowed with administrative autonomy. The Spaniards were probably the first to add sugar to cocoa and to make the first archaic form of chocolate and to spread it in their own domains, including the County of Modica.