Author: Eric Battersby

Holiday Chocolate 2017 – Chocolate Stocking Stuffers

This holiday season, your choices include four holiday bars from Theo Chocolate (still the holiday chocolate king), three bars from Endangered Species Chocolate, and one from Tony’s Chocolonely. We also spotted Little Secrets Dark Chocolate Candies (an actually edible M&M-like candy) pretty much everywhere as well, and we’ll briefly mention three more bars from Chuao Chocolatier to “wrap” it all up…

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Holiday Chocolate Shop 2017

Welcome to the 2017 Holiday Chocolate Shop, a one-stop shop for holiday chocolate and chocolate-related items, where we bring back earlier participants over the past year, give you great holiday season deals (with your 10% or 25% off discounts), and we donate up to 10% to Enliven Cacao, a nonprofit…

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November 2017 Issue Preview

Two great In Focus articles bring you two very different paths to chocolate success, as we interview Rob Anderson at Fresco and Jeff Shepherd at Lillie Belle — both are must-reads… Eric wraps up his two-part series on Corruption in the Chocolate Chain, and gives clear, easy steps for how we as chocolate connoisseurs can fix the problem… David Menkes throws down on Belgian chocolate and organics… Chocolate News reports some of the best news ever… and more…

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