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Workin’ (Together)
Off to DC to announce the new Heirlooms — at the French Embassy. This Friday evening we’ll taste special chocolate,…
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Of A Place
A sense Curry, lime, ginger Culture, flavor a way to be Chocolate; savory, alive Trinitario, cacao born of Trinidad An…
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Aeropuerto
5am flight to Panama and then Trinidad for Heirloom Cacao Preservation. Managing Director Alyssa and I are meeting with the…
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Playing Games
Stir ’em up. Roll the dice. You’re East. Play nice. Sweet flaked. Thirst slaked. Salty bite: Chocolate’s right.
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Flavor and Heart
India spiced halva enrobed in Bolivia Alto Beni Heirloom 70% dark milk chocolate and dusted with turmeric. GHIE OPENED THE…
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The Floating World
I pour green tea amidst shards of deeply toasted coconut. The chocolate is sweet and not sweet, tart and not…
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A Revolution, of Sorts
One more ride around the sun and I’m feeling the need for chocolate cake. No elegant piece of patisserie for…
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Chocolate Factory
On Thursday Paul and I (and his wife Rachel and my friend Alberto) took the harrowing mountain drive to Hugo…
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Tasting Chocolate with Luisa (and Paul and Andre)
Blueberries and plums,coffee, cinnamon, spiceon jungle-dark cacao. Paul and I had the honor of formally tasting some exquisitely precious wild…
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The Book
I was 25 when I discovered The Book ‘tween cookbooks in my mother’s kitchen. I’d not noticed before though it…
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Pulling the wool…
Little Richard’s working on the President’s letter for Heirloom Cacao Preservation Annual Report. Yasamin’s into wool sculpture, and apparently I’ve…
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A Spirit in a Spiritual Place
A near-eternal voyage finds Dancing Lion Chocolate maker Roger Balcom at Volker Lehmann’s legendary Tranquilidad Estate in Alto Beni, Bolivia,…
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