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Gearharts Fine Chocolates Goes for a New Look to Celebrate 25 Years
Over the summer, Charlottesville, Virginia-based artisan chocolatier Gearharts Fine Chocolates unveiled a new packaging design at the 2026 Summer Fancy Food Show. The refreshed design features refined typography and cacao blossom-inspired botanical artwork, to celebrate their 25th anniversary...
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How To Make a S’mores Martini
S'mores Martini, yep! Straight from the pages of Chocolate Connoisseur, here's a delicious recipe for a S'mores Martini. Chocolate, marshmallow, and graham cracker -- enjoy this S'mores cocktail!
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Amano Chocolate: In Focus
In Focus Features return, and this time you'll travel from New Mexico to Hawaii... from Washington to Madagascar... from Papa New Guinea to Peru, as you join Art Amano of Amano Chocolate on...
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The Ethical Bean
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Big Chocolate’s Ugly Secret
In Ghana and the Ivory Coast, roughly 2.6 million children work in the cocoa fields, and nearly all of the children, over 2 million, work as child laborers. Almost every single one of these children work in hazardous conditions as well...
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DoubleTree Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
If you’re looking for a silver lining in the stay-at-home situation so many of us currently face, how about a delicious, chocolatey one instead?! For the first time ever, a favorite on-the-road treat is...
Chocolate Tastings
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Chocolate Tastings: The Joys Of A Local Chocolate Tasting Club
Last month I had the wonderful pleasure of attending a chocolate tasting club here in Phoenix, and let me tell you… I can’t recommend the experience enough. Regardless of where you are on your chocolate connoisseur journey, I will say it unequivocally right now – there is a place for you at chocolate tastings. It will serve you well, put a big smile on your face...
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5 Questions For Your Chocolate Maker
The chocolate bar section of your local grocery, special store, or retail shop is already a crowded space, and growing increasingly more so. There are new bean-to-bar brands popping up daily, new products incorporating chocolate coming out all the time, and new packaging and product selection makes distinguishing quality chocolate more and more difficult…
Read MoreFarewell to Mott Green
I’d like to take a moment here in honor of the amazing chocolate maker Mott Green, who tragically left us back in early June. Mott was accidentally electrocuted while…
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