Category: Chocolate One-on-One – Preview
Chocolate One-on-One - Preview
Pascati Chocolate – Chocolate One-on-One with Victoria Cooksey
Victoria Cooksey returns with her first interview of the new decade, this time introducing you to India’s first certified USDA organic chocolate maker, Pascati Chocolate. Victoria interviews company founder Devansh Ashar, diving into multiple topics, including one that may surprise you — did you know that cacao grows in India?
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Uncouth Chocolate: Chocolate One-on-One
Our own Victoria Cooksey interviews Heidi Lalonde and Stephanie Sketchley, the two chocolate makers behind Uncouth Chocolate, as they share how they started their journey into craft chocolate, including making their own bean-to-bar varieties, tasting tips, how to find quality beans to make your own chocolate, and more…
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Villakuyaya: Chocolate One-on-One with Victoria Cooksey
Once again, Victoria Cooksey goes one-on-one with yet another fabulous chocolate maker. This time, meet Tania Molina Cruz of New York-based Villakuyaya Chocolate, in one of Victoria’s best interviews to date, as Tania opens up about chocolate and life in a way that’s sure to inspire…
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Pernia Family Farm – Chocolate One-on-One with Victoria Cooksey – Preview
Victoria Cooksey returns with her first Chocolate One-on-One article of 2019, this time introducing you to the Pernia family, of the Pernia Family Farm in Venezuela. She caught up with Gabriel Pernia and the rest of the family at the November 2018 Northwest Chocolate Festival in Seattle, and shares her full interview inside…
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Drinking Chocolate: Chocolate One-on-One with Victoria Cooksey
Victoria Cooksey returns for a Chocolate One-on-One that’s actually more like a Drinking Chocolate One-on-Four, as she interviews Luke Owen Smith (The Chocolate Bar), Sophia Rea (Projet Chocolat), Domantas Uzpalis (Chocolate Naïve), and Lilla Toth-Tatai (Little Beetle Chocolate).
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Hazel Lee: Chocolate One-on-One with Victoria Cooksey Preview
Have you ever thought about flavor in terms of color? A hint of raspberry hits your palette, you close your eyes and visualize… which color on the spectrum? Victoria Cooksey interviews Hazel Lee, creator of the innovative Taste with Colour® Chocolate Tasting Flavour Map, a simple and approachable tool used to identify more flavors in chocolate through colors.
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Nate Hodge: Chocolate One-on-One with Victoria Cooksey Preview
In August’s Chocolate One-on-One, Victoria Cooksey interviews Nate Hodge as they discuss his new book, “The Art and Craft of Chocolate: An Enthusiast’s Guide to Selecting, Preparing and Enjoying Artisan Chocolate at Home”, published just this month. From his own story, to Raaka Chocolate, to the new book, and even to how you might be the first to find the world’s still-undiscovered greatest cacao, you will love Nate’s positivity as he shares his knowledge.
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Askinosie Chocolate – Chocolate One-on-One with Victoria Cooksey Part II
Victoria Cooksey returns with part two of her exclusive interview with Askinosie Chocolate’s Shawn Askinosie. In this second segment, Shawn further expounds on his new book, “Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling and Feed Your Soul”, discussing self-doubt and the deeper human connections he’s made via speaking engagements related to the book’s content.
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Firefly Chocolate – Chocolate One-on-One with Victoria Cooksey
Victoria Cooksey returns to interview Jonas Ketterle of Firefly Chocolate and Ceremonial Cacao. Follow Jonas’ chocolate journey through his brief tech startup days… to a fateful trip to Mexico… to the outstanding, transformative chocolate and drinking cacao of Firefly. Get an inside look at how one of the most transparent chocolate companies today came to be.
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NearyNógs – Chocolate One-on-One with Victoria Cooksey Preview
Our new Associate Writer and chocolate blogging rock star, Victoria Cooksey, makes her Chocolate Connoisseur Magazine debut in our first ever “Chocolate One-on-One” column. To kick things off, Victoria interviews Dorothy Neary from Ireland’s own NearyNógs, outstanding chocolate from across the pond…
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