chocolate-cinema

Pembertons Chocolate CinemaIn the Chocolate Cinema there's a film which traces the life of a cocoa bean from growth to cultivation and turning into chocolate as we know it.

This is the educational bit where you can learn how cocoa became the chocolate that we know today.

You can also see how the pods are harvested and the beans are dried and fermented before being processed into the world's favourite food - Chocolate.

 
It's a 25 minute journey back into the history of this fascinating plant which was first used for flavouring savoury foods and only fairly recently sweetened to make confectionery.