Like Tapas For Chocolate

Taza Chocolate's blog states that their mission is to educate and to seduce. This Bostonist aspires to educate herself into delicious obesity tomorrow evening, when these Somervillean chocolatiers hold their first "chocolate lounge" in Cambridge.

Bostonist happened upon Taza's table at the Harvard farmers' market outside Memorial Hall yesterday, where we tried their chocolate-covered cacao nibs, and succumbed to an 8 oz. bag of whole cacao beans (roasted, if we heard correctly, in some newfangled contraption of sunlight and mirrors). The beans are stone-ground in Somerville and fashioned into bars ranging from 65% to espresso-like 100% cocoa.

The lounge will take up residence at Mariposa Bakery (424 Mass. Ave.), the darlingest cafe in Central Square, from 7:30 to 11 this Thursday night. Taza will be serving tasting flights of their varietals, and we're told that beverages will include single-origin drinking chocolate. Yes: hot cocoa with terroir. No chalky little marshmallows for us.

Photograph of cacao pod courtesy of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.