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Meet Estelle Tracy

Estelle Tracy is an award-winning food writer and chocolate sommelier based in the Philadelphia area. A French native, she discovered the bean-to-bar movement in 2015 and has been leading chocolate...

Keep Chocolate Cool when Shipping in Hot Climates

Keeping chocolate cool when shipping in hot climates can be a challenge even for the most seasoned makers and chocolatiers. Which boxes will best protect your products? How can you ship chocolate i...

Meet Shadel Nyack Compton

Shadel Nyack Compton is an innovator by nature, a lawyer by profession, a mother by heart, and a farmer by choice. Born in London, England and raised in Grenada. She holds a Juris Doctor and Master...

Spicing Up Your Cocoa Farm

An authentic tree-to-bar chocolate experience awaits you at Belmont Estate. Not only do they grow, harvest, ferment, and dry some of the finest cocoa beans in the world, they also produce their own...

Meet Dr. Rudy Scarfalloto

With over 36 years of experience as a health professional and teacher, including 29 years as a chiropractor, Dr. Rudy Scarfalloto leads his patients towards achieving optimum health by integrating ...

The Secrets of Health and Longevity

We often share the importance of self care for business owners and strategies for staying well. This time of year can be stressful for small business owners. With deadlines, fulfilling and shipping...

Meet Nick Saxby from Cocoa Runners

Nick works with Cocoa Runners, the UK’s leading craft chocolate platform, to help advocate for better chocolate. As a former teacher, Nick has a great deal of experience communicating ideas, and en...

Communicating & Educating through Storytelling

Chocolate makers are an ambitious, passionate and skilled group of people. But effective communication might not always be within their skillset.Nick Saxby is a former (and perhaps current) teacher...

Meet Mónica Lozano of La Rifa Chocolatería

A psychologist from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. For several years she has dedicated herself to learning, sharing, and feeling the culture of cacao and chocolate. She co-founded La...

Chocolates with Identity

Every single one of the chocolates made has its own identity. The origin of the cacao, the agricultural system from which it comes, as well as the peasant work of post-harvest processes and the qua...