Chocolate and coffee road trip!
Lou and Chava got to go on a week-long trip through Tabasco and Chiapas …. visiting cacao and coffee farms … with Dark Matter Coffee and Rick Bayless’ Topolobampo crew … and all you get is this stupid travelogue.
That’s Aaron Campos and Jesse Diaz of Dark Matter Coffee posing among the cacao trees in Tabasco.
Agave Road Trip is a critically acclaimed, award-winning podcast that helps gringx bartenders better understand agave, agave spirits, and rural Mexico. It’s hosted by Lou Bank and Chava Periban.
Episode Notes
If you don’t know Dark Matter Coffee, you’re missing out on some amazing coffee. So go try some Dark Matter Coffee.
If you know Dark Matter Coffee but haven’t yet tried their chocolate, you’re missing out on some amazing chocolate. So go try their Sleep Walk Chocolate.
If you don’t know Rick Bayless … sorry, what are you doing here? Go eat at any of Chef’s amazing restaurants, in Chicago and New York. And be sure to try Topolobampo, where he and his crew (shout out to Jennifer, Meagan, and Zach, who also joined the journey) put together unique tasting menus. Want to try some of what we dined on this trip? They’re running the Chiapas menu 03/01-4/22/2023 and the Tabasco menu 04/26-6/17/2023.
Gallery Images
Chef Nelly Cordova Morillo of Cocina Chontal, a do-not-miss spot in Tabasco
One of the many, many, many do-not-miss puppies running around at Cocina Chontal
My favorite picture of the trip: Topolobampo pastry chef Jennifer-Melendrez owns the mercado
Dark Matter’s Kelly Roderer and Chef Bayless try snorting the coffee at Unión Majomut
Coffee does grow on trees
Sometimes woodpeckers start the process of fermenting the cacao mucilage
