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Lessons for Craft Chocolate from Specialty Coffee, Fine Wine, Artisan Cheese and our other peers

An Empowering Chocopreneurs Webinar Presented by Cocoa Runners founder Spencer Hyman Please note that this webinar will not be recorded. You will need to attend the event live. No link will be prov...

Cacao Flavor: Think Outside the Box

Fresh cacao seeds are beautifully multidimensional and functional in their design and construction. And like all other seeds, the expression of their genetics is deeply influenced by their growing ...

Measure the Effectiveness of Your Online Presence

We all have websites. But how do we know how effective they are? Would you like to: Reach more customers for your business Understand more about how you can track the effectiveness of your online...

What, Why & How of Cracking & Winnowing

As part of CocoaTown's Empowering Chocopreneurs Webinar series, we want to bring you a webinar on Mar. 6, 2021 on "What, Why & How of Cracking & Winnowing".  In the process of bean to bar c...

Care & Maintenance of CocoaTown Melangers

Are you looking to invest in your first melanger and want to know how easy it is to use and maintain? Do you have a CocoaTown melanger and want to know how to care and maintain your melanger to ext...

Meet the Presenter Mayari Castellanos

Mayari Castellanos is a graduate archaeologist at the University of the Americas, Mexico with a postgraduate degree in ceramic restoration and conservation. She is an associate researcher at INAH M...

CocoaTown Equipment Basics Series

Did you know that our customers are still using ECGC-12 melangers after 14 years? Do you want to use your melangers for decades for high ROI? Do you wish you had some basic guidelines and troublesh...

Empowering Chocopreneurs Webinar Series Reaches participants in 45 Countries

Several months ago we came up with the idea to start our Empowering Chocoprenuers webinar series as a way to help our customers, cocoa farmers and anyone else in the chocolate industry during this ...

Post-harvest Processing and its Effects on the Cocoa Bean Quality

As a part of CocoaTown's Empowering Chocopreneurs© webinar series we are bringing you Post-harvest Processing and its Effects on the Cocoa Bean Quality presented by Dr. Darin Sukha of the Cocoa Re...

Meet the Presenter - Chef Wayne Cezair

A quintessential exponent of the medicinal value of food, he soon discovered the hidden potential of the cocoa plant and began investigating the other properties of the cocoa fruit that are often o...