Doña Marcela 100% Pure Tabléa de Cacao

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"Cacao has the highest antioxidant concentration of any major food in the world."

~ David Wolfe

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Hindang, Leyte
Hindang

Telephone

+639196850068

Website

https://donamarcelatableadecacao.wordpress.com/

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Our Tabléa de Cacao Heritage

Doña Marcela Abogadie Vda. de Sarsonas y Acedera – fondly called Nanang Elay – was a local producer of tabléa de cacao. Born in 1884 in Hindang, Leyte, she learned the art of making tabléa as a child from her old folks who were of Mexican-Spanish ancestry. She then started making it on her own after her marriage in 1902 to Don Lucas Sarsonas y Abedejos.

Over the years, the family has been making tabléa de cacao solely for their consumption and as gifts for intimate friends but after her husband’s death in 1923, Nanang Elay started to commercialize her trade. Little did she know that her skill in making tabléa de cacao will later support her family .

Production increased in the ’70s and even after her passing in 1978. It was in the early ‘90s, however, that the family stopped production when her youngest daughter-Aquilina Sarsonas Alorro y Abogadie became preoccupied with church duties, and also with the fact that her grandsons (who peddled the tabléa daily before going to school) all went away to college and eventually settled in Manila. The dwindling supply of Cacao beans during that time also contributed to the temporary halt in production.

It was only in 2010, when the family started doing it again but only on a made-to-order basis. The business was formally reopened on April 30, 2018. New and modern equipment were acquired to facilitate mass production to cope with demands and large orders. Although modern pieces of equipment are now used, the tabléas are still made using traditional technique and process thereby retaining its original classic taste.

At present, Doña Marcela 100% Pure Tabléa de Cacao is now sold in supermarkets in and around Leyte. Occasionally, it is also shipped to other parts of the country and even to countries in Europe and North America. It has now become a favorite ‘pasalubong’ of tourists and returning OFWs who visit the town during fiestas and other important occasions.

Our Social Responsibility

Doña Marcela 100% Pure Tabléa de Cacao is committed to give employment opportunities to women who are underprivileged, single parents and even senior citizens who are living within the community in which it is situated.

Hindang, Leyte, a 5th class municipality, home to some 21,000 inhabitants who are mostly farmers and fisher-folks, provides very little employment opportunities.

Today, we have a few women employees that are directly involved in our tabléa de cacao manufacturing process. These women are now happily contributing to their respective families in improving their quality of life.

Our Mission

To provide consumers with the best quality tabléa while preserving Filipino tradition and culture. To preserve and strengthen local families, by providing sustainable jobs so that parents do not have to leave their children any longer to seek employment elsewhere, in order to give them a decent quality of life.

Our Vision

To create a better everyday tabléa experience for Filipinos and others. This means ensuring that each tabléa that comes out of our factory is of the finest quality, is clean and safe, so that each one who tastes it, will have an enjoyable experience similar to being transported back to the glorious era of our country’s illustrious past.