feral trade hot chocolate
Ingredients:Cacao, Sugar, Cinnamon, Spices. Use one tablet per +/- 1 cup of hot milk, soya milk or hot water. Cook it until it boils. If you want it foamy, put it in the blender for a bit. Drink hot. ferally traded since: 12/02/09.
FER-1479
Chocolate Emperador de Oaxaca Oaxaca, Mexico to HTTP gallery London, UK
dispatched 12/02/09 delivered 04/03/09
hot chocolate shipment FER-1479
REMARKS: stock for hot chocolate, feral trade cafe at HTTP
QTY: 10 units at bag each
FROM: Chocolate Emperador de Oaxaca in Oaxaca, Mexico
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TO: HTTP gallery in London, UK
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SENDER:minerva cuevas
RECEIVER: kate rich
REQUESTED: to ship between 23/12/09 and 13/06/09
STATUS: delivered HTTP gallery 04/03/09
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COURIER: minerva cuevas  Natalie Turturro 
TOTAL ROUTE:  Chocolate Emperador de Oaxaca-Tlaxiaco-Topacio Street no. 25-Mexico City Benito Juarez airport-London Heathrow Airport-Whitechapel Gallery-Aldgate East tube station-Gloucester Road tube station-Queens Gate-Manor House tube station--HTTP gallery

       
hot chocolate Chocolate Emperador de Oaxaca to HTTP gallery 1. hot chocolate boxed mexico 2. hot chocolate trolley 3. Natalie and Blanca with Chocolate 4. chocolate storage HTTP office
Shipping Facts
FER-1479 import purchase & freight
10 x hot chocolate baggrossper bag
10 kilos of chocolate £23 £2.30
Transport from Tlaxiaco to Mexico City £7 £0.70
Transport from parking lot to studio £3 £0.30
total£33£3.30
Natalie Turturro I got lost, as always, on my way to Whitechapel to meet Minerva Cuevas, artist from Mexico. She was delivering 10 kilos of hot chocolate from her home country, but I was expecting to pick up a small tin of powdered cocoa. Boy was I wrong! Minerva handed me the chocolate in a forest green suitcase which no longer rolls, so we had to put it on a rolling luggage holder. This proved to be difficult to transport, carrying up and down tube station stairs, and up to my flat--the metal luggage roller battering the sides of my legs as I, like Willy Wonka, hauled massive amounts of chocolate around for a couple hours. The only difference was, I couldn't eat the chocolate, being merely a middle man. I was delighted to take part in feral trading, and to meet Minerva and her sister Blanca. It was a pleasure to learn about and later attend Minerva's exhibit, "Scoop." I hope to participate more with feral trade in the future.
Courier Report FER-1479 DISPATCHED: 12/02/09 DELIVERED: 04/03/09 minerva cuevas The tablets to make Oaxacan hot chocolate ware produced in Teposcolula, a town in the state of Oaxaca (south of Mexico) by the Santaella Saavedra family. 10 kilos of this tablets were delivered at my uncle's workshop in the city of Tlaxiaco. My aunt sent the parcel to Mexico City on the 15th of February using an alternative courier service: a truck that transports parcels Wednesdays and Sundays from Tlaxiaco to a parking lot in the center of Mexico City (6 hours drive), this is an informal and very cheap way to transport goods. The parcels can be collected by the recipients at the parking lot (Topacio street). I carried the 10 kilos of chocolate in my suitcase next to a fiber optic light generator that I was planning to use in a project. The original plan was to ask my sister -who was also travelling to London- to carry half of the shipment but fearing she could be interrogated about it at costumes I decided to carry all of it myself and I had space in my suitcase. This chocolate is so aromatic that everything gets impregnated with cacao and cinnamon scent.
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FERALTRADE products passed by hand. The word 'feral' describes a process that is deliberately wild, as in pigeon, as opposed to nature wild (wolf). Feral Trade freight operates largely outside commercial channels, using the surplus potential of social, cultural and data networks for the distribution of goods. contact kate@feraltrade.org