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Challenges of Converting to Organic Cocoa Farming

Leslie Agyare, founder of Three Mountains Cocoa in Ghana will share his story of building solid foundations and forging key alliances, such as a collaboration with other farmers to create a coopera...

Tips & Techniques to Fix Tempering Troubles

What the heck are those grayish spots on my chocolate? How did this happen? What caused these funky streaks across the bar? Why am I having so much trouble with tempering? What is chocolate bloom a...

Essentials for a Powerful Website and Successful Ecommerce Platform

Essentials for a Powerful Website and Successful Ecommerce Platform presented by Ms. Sundari Ganesan, CEO, Nextgen Consulting Inc. Atlanta Are you interested in building a new website or setting up...

Cross Atlantic Chocolate Collective

How can farmers and chocolate makers in origin countries help each other, what are the challenges in making chocolate in producer nations and what if there was a model to enable this?The Cross Atla...

Standardizing Recipes Presented by Chef Y.B. Mathur

Join us Saturday February 12th for our next Empowering Chocopreneurs webinar Standardizing Recipes presented by Chef Y.B. Mathur. Chef Mathur is one of India’s most respected bakery and patisserie ...

Opening the Bean to Bar Door in Saudi Arabia

Join CocoaTown and Rayed AL Ajlan, Founder of Rayco, to explore the craft chocolate movement in Saudi Arabia. Rayed will share his chocolate making journey highlighting his struggles and strengths ...

An Empowering Chocopreneurs© Networking Event

Whether you are a seasoned professional, start up, or dream of starting your own business, networking is an important exercise that can help springboard you to new heights. It is an essential proce...

The Diversity of Theobroma Cacao and Theobroma Bicolor

Join CocoaTown and Renya Flores for our next Empowering Chocopreneurs Webinar. Date: Saturday November 20th 2021Time: 10:00 am - 12 noon Atlanta timeTopic:The Diversity of Theobroma Cacao and Theo...

Cacao Ceremony

Have you heard the term ‘cacao ceremony’ and wondered what it’s all about? What is the purpose of the ceremony?As makers, producers and manufactures we are working with chocolate but do we really g...

Working With A Distributor For Your Chocolate By Valerie Beck

Join Valerie Beck, Founder of Chocolate Uplift, called the Chocolate Auntie as she takes us through the ins and outs of finding the right distributor and building a relationship that works for you ...