Luchie Suguitan

Ingredients:

60 g Unsalted butter (melted)
100 grams High on Happy Chocolate-60% dark choco with coconut sugar (melted)
A whole egg
Two egg yolks
20 g Coconut sugar
Pinch of sea salt
20 g cornstarch

Beat the whole egg and yolks together till homogenous, but do not over beat. Mix in the melted butter, melted chocolate, sugar and salt. Mix well till everything’s dissolved. Add the cornstarch in the end, incorporate well but do not over mix.

Scoop equal amounts of batter into your ramekins.

Bake for 8 minutes at 170°C or until the sides are firm but soft center. Jiggly is good.

Remove from the oven, let it settle for a minute. Unmould, garnish with fresh fruits, ice cream or plain, as desired. Serve immediately. Enjoy!

Tip: Dust your ramekins with cocoa powder so it won't stick as it bakes and for easy unmoulding.

Over the last century, chocolate has become a common commodity-- far cry from how Theobroma Cacao was discovered and even revered as the 'food of the Gods'. Cheap chocolates these days line up grocery shelves like unfeeling prostitutes. Their colourful packaging hide the ugly truths which lurk with over consumption-- modern-day slavery, child labour, the bastardization of ingredients and industrialization.

Lost are the hands which nurture the cacao trees.

Is this still the food of the Gods?

This edible tree and performance attempts to interpret these paradoxes and bring back the focus on what has never changed -

The cacao tree is humble,

And the cacao farmer is faceless.

Chocolate casted cacao pod fruits stuffed with chocolate truffles, are harvested by a faceless Luchie with Dagday-Ay, a folk song sung by farmers during their working hours prompting her to move across the space in the background.

Sound by:

DAGDAY-AY is a solo song, sung only by men, usually during a resting time from work or travel. The lyrics often recall good times of the past.

Researched by Glenn Stallsmith, ethnomusicologist on the music and dance of the Mangali people in the Philippines.

What the Food Tea Party

Participating in Alserkal Avenue’s What The Food, Farah Nasrawi, kōl, Luchie Suguitan, Bhavika Bhatia, Richi Bhatia, Andrew Riad and Nahla Tabbaa (with Moza Almatrooshi, Salma Serry and Namliyeh) elaborated on Andrew’s previous workshop, Egyptifying Petit Fours. The tea-party was curated to activate a site for collective reflections and informal discussions around an imagined tea party in an attempt to decolonise the ‘tea party’ as we know it. The tablescape was an imagined menu of drinks and snacks absent of ever being colonised.

Luchie Suguitan, a proud Filipino served Leche Flan, a “Filipinized” dessert consisting of milk, sugar and eggs, originally brought over to the Philippines during the Spanish colonization. She also whisked a very traditional Xocolatl, a bitter water made with 100% pure cacao, the base of the range of other chocolate products that she makes in her very own chocolate factory in Dubai, Co Chocolat.

Chef Luchie Suguitan is not only the head of products and COO at Co Chocolat, a homegrown UAE healthy chocolate brand, but as a true cacao doctor, she also heads post-harvest processing to create community-wide protocols for cacao fermentation, drying, and roasting. Though a graduate of hotel and restaurant management, Luchie worked in a telecommunications advisory and private equity firm for over a decade in Dubai before she finally followed her true passion—chocolate.

She gained the title of Maître Chocolate Maker from Ecole Chocolat (Professional School of Chocolate Arts) after successfully completing chocolate-making from bean to bar in the USA and her chocolate bonbons program at Ecole du Grand Chocolat Valrhona in Tain-l'Hermitage, France.

Luchie is also the one who gains weight the fastest in the family, though she is the triathlete; able to swim for kilometres in open water, bike for a hundred kilometres and run half-marathons. Every day for her is a fight not to gain weight while satisfying her sweet tooth.

@luchiesuguitan

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