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ChocoVivo - stone ground, bean to bar chocolate in Los Angeles, CA
By The Chocolate Tourist, 2014-05-16
ChocoVivo , just ten minutes east of Venice, is the first bean to bar chocolate manufacturer Ive found in LA.
For the full story (including taste-testing!) come on over to The Chocolate Tourist blog .
Maybe not! Listing common ingredients in "chocolate" that could be inducing symptoms. Do you or a friend suffer from the following?
It's all at The Chocolate Tourist blog .
Potomac is thefirst chocolate maker I ever interviewed. My friend Valerie and I met Ben Rasmussen and got to watchhim make chocolate. From scratch.
A one-man bean to bar maker with a childlike joy in the process of making good chocolate!
Chocolate was first enjoyed as a drink. Mash up some cocoa beans, add water and some other exciting ingredients (sugar, spices, corn) and yum, its dessert for kings and queens.
But now we usually eat chocolate in a bar. Did you ever wonderhow that came to be? No? Well, Ill tell you anyway. Read all about it.
I subscribed to Standard Cocoa's monthly chocolate delivery service, and my first box contained Middlebury Chocolates! Small batches ofhandmade bean to bar chocolate.
Good stuff!
Book Review: "Chocolate Chocolate," by Frances Park & Ginger Park
By The Chocolate Tourist, 2014-04-13
Ihope you will love this book as much as I did! A charming memoir of 25 years in business at the Washington, DC chocolate shop of the same name. A boost to every entrepreneur, dreamer, and chocolate lover.
What do you call the neighborhood shop that represents thedreams,hard work, family loyalty, and enduring passion for chocolate of two very special sisters? Chocolate Chocolate.
Read all about it on The Chocolate Tourist blog!
The Chocolate Chase - looking for chocolate in all the wrong places
By The Chocolate Tourist, 2014-04-02
...and finding it (eventually).
A morning in Georgetown leads us on a wild goose chase! But chocolate always comes through in the end.
