{"id":2991,"date":"2026-03-13T09:32:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T09:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ificumori.it\/?p=2991"},"modified":"2026-03-13T09:32:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T09:32:57","slug":"modica-the-chocolate-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ificumori.it\/en\/modica-la-contea-del-cioccolato\/","title":{"rendered":"Modica, the county of chocolate."},"content":{"rendered":"

Tell Modica <\/strong>and you think about chocolate<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A pairing, that between the Iblean city and the food of the gods, which has distant origins, when in XVI<\/strong> Second I Spanish dominators<\/strong> introduced in the County of Modica<\/strong>, then the most important feudal state Sicily<\/strong>, the precious bean of the Americas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The processing<\/strong> it was the one learned from Aztec<\/strong>, cold<\/strong>, using the metate, the stone mill. But unlike the Indigenous people, who consumed liquid cocoa, sugar was introduced into the Sicilian recipe: thus was born the famous chocolate bar. <\/strong>With a unique feature, which sets it apart from what we're used toi<\/strong>Modica chocolate does not contain cocoa butter and the sugar granules remain separate, giving the chocolate a crumbly consistency<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The delicacy was the Festive dessert<\/strong> of noble Modica families and thus it has been passed down to this day before becoming a confectionery product of international fame<\/strong>Since 2003, Modica chocolate has boasted a protected geographical indication (PGI) Consortium for the protection of<\/strong>, product recognition Protected Geographical Indication<\/strong> and it's a festival, Eurochocolate<\/strong>, which to December<\/strong> for three days, it transforms Modica into an open-air pastry shop, a destination for visitors from all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Nowadays, stone grinders are no longer used, but modern machinery, but the characteristic of Modica chocolate remains the same, a gritty and crumbly consistency<\/strong> achieved through simple cold processing, no more than 40 degrees, without conching, so as to keep the sugar separate in grains from the cocoa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The most famous shop in Modica is the\u2019Antica Dolceria Bonajuto<\/strong>, the first to make Modica chocolate a brand. In the summer, resign yourself to queuing to taste one of the many Flavoured tablets<\/strong> to citrus fruits, or spices, cinnamon, pepper, marjoram, or salt in the beautiful shop-museum reviewed by New York Times<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonajuto was the first, and after him came the boom: along Corso Umberto and throughout the historic centre, there are dozens of artisan chocolate shops or small factories. You're spoiled for choice, and your taste buds will be too!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dici Modica e pensi al cioccolato! Un binomio, quello tra la citt\u00e0 iblea e il cibo degli dei che ha origine lontane, quando nel XVI sec i dominatori spagnoli introdussero nella contea di Modica, allora lo stato feudale pi\u00f9 importante di Sicilia, la preziosa fava delle Americhe. La lavorazione era quella imparata dagli aztechi, a freddo, mediante l\u2019utilizzo del metate, la macina a pietra. Ma a differenza degli […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-drink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ificumori.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ificumori.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ificumori.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ificumori.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ificumori.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ificumori.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2992,"href":"https:\/\/ificumori.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions\/2992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ificumori.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ificumori.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ificumori.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ificumori.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"Or, if you meant to type \"wp\", here are a few possibilities:\n\n* **WP** (often stands for WordPress)\n* **We'll be**\n* **What's up?**","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}