Description
Amami Oshima Island is a wild and unspoilt island in the Nansei Archipelago, which stretches from Kyushu to Taiwan. There, sacred nature still nourishes many legends and animist beliefs. This prodigious island enjoys an exceptional climate that allows four harvests of sugar cane per year. Sloping and stony fields require difficult manual harvesting. 200 years ago, the end of the latter was celebrated with a tribal trance. Black sugar is made from fresh sugar cane, which is washed and rinsed before processing. Then, it is cold-pressed. The juice from this first pressing is reduced over a wood fire, without the addition of water, white sugar or syrup, then decanted for 5 days. The syrup obtained in this way is crystallized and will come in pieces or semolina.
Its chocolate and licorice taste is totally irresistible when sugar is crushed on fruit and in baking. This black sugar from Japan leaves no one indifferent.
