I've loved experimenting with drinking chocolates this winter. Swirling shaved chocolate into a saucepan of milk produces a far better result than anything I achieve with hot cocoa mix. I usually use dark chocolate, and sometimes add sugar until the mixture reaches my desired sweetness. That is, until recently -- the mother of my close friend is Colombian, and she brought us a bar of Colombian chocolate designed for melting into hot beverages. I can't get enough of it.The bar is already sweetened perfectly, so you just add it to hot milk and allow it to melt. Once melted, you beat the mixture with a molinillo -- a chocolate whisker with designs native to Colombia, Mexico and other Latin American countries. The result is a deliciously foamy drink with a great chocolate kick. The product I used is called Sweet Chocolate, and the brand is Sol. I found the cheapest bar ($3.99) at Latin Pantry. But I'm sure there are others out there from Colombia as well as from other countries, so please share your favorites!
If you don't have a molinillo, you can use a normal whisk to achieve ideal foaminess. Feel free to add cinnamon as they do in Colombia, or syrups and extracts of your choice.
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A small company in southern Colombia has recently started
manufacturing a carbonated soda made with the extract of coca, the stimulating shrub from which cocaine is made. The
company, Empresa Colombiana de la Coca, is owned and operated by a group of Nasa Indians, an indigenous people that
have used coca leaves for centuries. The soda, called Coca-Sek, has apparently won the approval of local tasters and
the "tea-like" flavor is supposedly somewhere between 7-Up and ginger ale, according to a 
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