INTRODUCING...
Posted on Feb 16, 2010 in News
At Sahagun, we get a thrill out of bringing outlandish ideas to life. We believe in imagining new ways of tasting things and in writing love letters to our ingredients.
KA-POW! was created for the Edible Portland Ecotrust/ Slow Food-organized event called from Bean to Buzz. Four Coffee Roasters teamed up with four chocolatiers, chocolate makers or chocolate bar shop owners from Portland and Seattle area.
Sahagun was paired with Stumptown Coffee Roasters and Claudio Corallo Chocolate.
I wanted to come up with something that I didn't already make, something that I had never seen before. I wanted to create true union/collaboration between coffee and chocolate. I wanted to make a baby from them so to speak...
KA-POW! has the bold flavor & aroma of coffee with the physicality of chocolate, all while adding no chocolate; a coffee bar. It has a pure coffee bean flavor and a crunchy texture without the unpleasant hardened shards of coffee bean.
After making KA-POW! I then made a backwards bark using KA-POW! as the medium into which I poured unmelted pieces of Claudio Corallo chocolate and nibs: a coffee bean-covered chocolate. This one is still in the works....
in the meantime, KA-POW! has landed! The only way to know it is to taste it.
(image by Brennan Novak)
