Soma Old School Milk Chocolate
Say what?! That's right. Oh yeah. A milk old school bar made from the coveted Chuao cacao. Chocolate as it was back in the day: Simple and pure. Only three ingredients ground together in Soma's vintage melangeur - no further processing, refining or conching. Partially ground Chuao cacao nibs, milk and whole crystals of organic cane sugar provide an entirely unique crumbly almost cookie-like texture. Soma’s first space was in a tiny corner of a former whisky distillery. They started off roasting and winnowing cacao beans, refining and conching their own chocolate, spinning gelato, baking cookies, making hot chocolates, and producing a line of truffles. (whew!) A small retail portion would fold out during the day, and like a transformer, fold back in at night. It was here that they started meeting a community of very interesting folks with a healthy appetite for great chocolate. What does SOMA mean? Soma in Sanskrit means “food of the Gods” By coincidence, Theobroma Cacao which is the La