The "Ruta del Chocolate Justo" Arrives for the First Time to Tudela

Seven bars, shops and restaurants of the capital ribera will participate in March as well as the Library with different exhibitions and workshops.

Tudela hosts, for the first time, the "Feria del Chocolate Justo", which has been held in Pamplona for four years. A gastronomic initiative with chocolate as the main factor, that tries to spread the need for international trade based on justice and sustainability, with the collaboration of bars, restaurants and shops, both in the capital ribera and Pamplona.

The initiative presents various activities such as a chocolate tasting that will be held on March 3 at the Tudela Library, a cooking workshop with the Balún Canán store at the Tudela Market (March 6), an exhibition on the cultivation of cocoa and the importance of its trade and a children's workshop on March 16 at the Library called Saving the Island of Chocolate.

It is the first time that this Chocolate Route will be developed in parallel in two cities, Tudela and Pamplona, and it does so in its fifth edition that will take place from March 3 to 10. As for the bars, cafes and restaurants, which in Tudela there are seven, Sua Restaurant, Malkerida bar, Tres delicias, Trigo Dulce, El Obrador, Topero Restaurant and the cafeteria of the UPNA Campus, you will be able to taste a dessert made with fair trade chocolate and when consuming it a brochure will be delivered with the 10 principles of this type of trade.

As part of the elaboration of the recipes, the organizing entities of both routes (SETEM Navarra-Nafarroa, Pueblos Hermanos and Proclaimade Yanapay), have contributed 26 kilos of cocoa and 26 kilos of chocolate shed, in addition to 7,000 leaflets that are accompanied by a small chocolate bar. The presentation was attended by Jon Martínez, from the Sua Restaurant, who has prepared the Childhood Memories dessert for the route, an "airy chocolate mousse, with a crispy bread, salt and oil”.

The objective of these proposals is to bring closer a model of conscious consumption such as that offered by Fair Trade and that it be considered as an added value from the culinary and sustainability point of view.

The exhibition in Tudela has been installed in the Library and can be visited from today, about the cocoa industry and its consequences in producing countries, as well as examples of fair trade cooperatives in Ecuador and Ivory Coast. In addition, the Library will also host a chocolate tasting that will be held online from Ecuador (for about 25 places) and a children's workshop on March 16 at 17 hours with the game Save the Island of Chocolate. Finally, the Balún Caán store will host a truffle making workshop on March 6th at 6 p.m. for 12 people who have to register at the Library.

About 50 million people have the cocoa as their main means of livelihood and it is estimated that by 2024 it will reach 162,000 million euros of market.

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