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Meet Amanda Jo Wildey

Amanda Jo “AJ” Wildey is an anthropologist and certified cacao and chocolate taster based in Lima, Peru. AJ has conducted fieldwork in different cacao growing regions throughout Peru and, in 2017, ...

Flavors of Peru - Empowering Chocopreneurs© Webinar:

In 2012, Peru secured its reputation as a fine cacao destination as the craze for its Piura blanco bean spread across North America and Europe. In the decade since, we have been able to appreciate ...

SheTrades - A Global Resource for Women Entrepreneurs

Are you a woman entrepreneur looking to build a successful business plan? Are you looking to improve or learn new skills? Wish there was an international platform to connect to recourse locally and...

Meet Alain d'Aboville

Alain d'Abovile Alain’s chocolate voyage started in Madagascar where he spent his early childhood. After a career in management mostly in Europe, he travelled there again in the early 2000’s and v...

Learning the Ropes of Roasting with Alain d'Aboville

Learning the Ropes of Roasting with Alain d'Aboville There really is no magic formula to determining the best cocoa bean roasting time and temperature across the board because different size beans...

Meet Amy Coronado

Amy Coronado is the Senior Chocolate Engineer at Cocoa Press. She is a Materials Science Engineering graduate from Carnegie Mellon University who specializes in chocolate production and 3D printing...

TEMPERmental: A Guide to the Science and Craft of Chocolate Tempering with Amy Coronado an Empowering Chocopreneurs© webinar

Well tempered chocolate is the finishing touch on all your hard work up to that point. It is like the icing on the cake. Tempering gives the snap and shine that visually showcases your creation.Tem...

Meet Arcelia Gallardo

Arcelia Gallardo: I am owner and chocolate maker of Mission Chocolate based in São Paulo Brazil. I have been in the chocolate industry for 18 years, I teach chocolate making classes and I have a re...

Cocoa Is More Than Chocolate: Innovations in Brazil With Arcelia Gallardo

We are excited to have Arcelia Gallardo to present a webinar on  Cocoa Is More Than Chocolate: Innovations in Brazil as part of our Empowering Chocopreneurs Webinar series. She will be highlighting...

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...