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Meet the presenters of Cross Atlantic Chocolate Collective -The New Normal

Meet the presenters of the Cross Atlantic Chocolate Collective -The New Normal

Meet Chef Y.B. Mathur

Chef Y.B. Mathur retired from the services of ITC Limited as Senior Executive Chef. ITC Limited owns ITC Hotels, the premier hospitality company in India. Chef Mathur has impeccable records of his ...

Meet Chocolate Maker Rayed Al Ajlan

In his own words: "I'm Rayed, the Saudi who decided to make his chocolate from bean to bar by his taste and sensory in Saudi Arabia, where there are many local ingredients that can be used. I spent...

Meet Reyna Flores

Reyna Flores was born in Mexico City and moved to southern Mexico, where she has worked as a dentist for more than 3 decades in the heart of cocoa tree plantations. There she got to know many cocoa...

Meet Lyn Bishop

I'm Lyn Bishop, and I left a life in Silicon Valley in order to create a more simple way of showing up in the world - both inside and out. I live in a rural community in Panama where I've designed...

Meet Dustin Cornett

Dustin & his wife Mai started their journey into the world of chocolate when they discovered Dustin’s grandmother’s old bonbon recipes. They wanted to add their own special touch to her amazing...

Meet Nisao Ogata

Nisao Ogata has conducted research mainly in tropical rain forests in the Neotropics. His main interests are Ethnobotany, systematics, biodiversity, conservation biology, diversified agroforestry s...

Meet Karen Cordon & Christian Martinez

Chocolate maker Christian Martínez is a developer of chocolate based products in the Bean to Bar industry. Chris is a producer of origin chocolates and manufacturer of cocoa derived products for di...

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, ...

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...