Hawaii Highlights – Oahu, Kauai & Big Island
I’m back from an epic 12-day trip to Hawaii, researching, reporting, exploring and eating my way through multiple islands, concluding with the Big Island Chocolate Festival. Although there are only a few Hawaiian chocolate makers exporting to the mainland (including Madre Chocolate,…
April Obsessions: The Surrey, Jurlique, and Chocolate Elephants
I just realized I spend significantly more time on airplanes than in cars, but I’m not complaining. I guess that explains why I haven’t driven more than a golf cart in years. So far this year, I’ve had some incredible adventures…
Ritual Chocolate, Park City, Utah
Chocolatemaker Robbie Stout of Ritual Chocolate has a simple chocolate-making philosophy – by using the best equipment to process the best cacao beans, you’ll make the best chocolate. “When I look at a competitor, I judge them based on their equipment and their bean…
Chocolate & Art Collide at Casa Cortés
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO For the first time ever, Puerto Rico is growing its own cacao thanks to the help of Chocolate Cortés, a fourth-generation Puerto Rican chocolate company and the major cacao processor in the Caribbean. Cortés produces more than 4,000 metric…