From Dominica to Tobago with Cocoa
Carlina Jules-Taylor talks with Pat Ganase about her journey to Tonci Chocolate, recently presented at the 2024 Trade and Investment Conference. (All photos courtesy Carlina Jules-Taylor) In Dominica, my mother Marie Jules taught me to make drinking chocolate. Her father was an overseer on an estate with cocoa, coffee, coconut. She grew up with cocoa. Her mother, my grandmother, used to process everything on the estate. They squeezed sugar cane daily and boiled the juice to make visou (thick almost crystallised syrup) which was used to sweeten cocoa and coffee. My grandfather kept cows, so there was fresh milk to add to cocoa. This estate was in La Plaine. The Taylor family: Tadijah, Theo, Carlina and Randy Marie Jules comes from Dominica to Tobago to help out I grew up in Roseau. My father was a fisherman, Elwin Jules. So my mother left the country and lived in a part of Roseau near the sea called Newtown. Everyone loves coffee but poor people could not buy a lot ...