La Placita Salt Shop in Bonaire offers table salt, bath/beauty products and other specialty items from Bonaire’s famous salt plants. It’s an exclusive Bonaire product for which more than 20% of the island is used for the production. Read more »
We love chocolate. Let me say that again. We love chocolate! And of course we prefer the cocoa to be fair trade and organic. Artisanal chocolate factory Defroidmont in Erezée makes their chocolate in a factory that is visible through the shop. Next door to the chocolate factory and shop they also have a museum where you can learn about the origin of the cocoa beans. Did you know cocoa beans consist of cocoa butter and cocoa mass? And that for making white chocolate only cocoa butter, powdered milk and sugar are used? Read more »
Via Instagram we got the tip to check out Normo Coffee. So we did. Jens, the owner, explains that everything starts with taste. This governs all his choices when selecting ingredients. Not always with an organic or fair trade certification, but without pesticides and he pays a fair price.
Every time we passed a Monmouth coffee bar it was crowded. If you are a coffee lover, just the smell wafting at you when passing Monmouth’s will be sufficient to make you want to buy an espresso. And is the coffee fair? The people from Monmouth’s visit the coffee producers and cooperatives themselves. Read more »
