Cacao Next

This creation features an intense variety of chocolate flavors and textures balancing them with fruity and sweet herbal notes. It combines chocolate and cacao profiles from pure cacao to dark and milk chocolate, a rounded banana flavor coming from two local banana varieties from the island of Crete, bonded together with, one of the best Extra virgin olive oils in the world, the Gaea Fresh olive oil from Peloponnese. The whole is completed with sweet anise notes from fennel, star anise, and Ouzo. The idea behind this concept is to combine the best nature can give us, with what our knowledge and science has accomplished with it. So, pure cacao and local varieties of fruit and herbs (nature side), are combined with high quality chocolates, a fresh full-flavored olive oil and interesting flavor pairings (knowledge/science side).  It is presented in a modern and stylized version of a cacao fruit hybrid, to demonstrate  that cacao, in the future, is what we make of it; how we personalize it, infuse it with locality and ultimately make it ours. This dessert is packed with polyphenols and antioxidants among other nutrients, making it not only tasty, but functional as well.