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Category: Bean-to-Bonbon Chocolate

May 2, 2024May 2, 2024Bean-to-Bonbon Chocolate

HCP#2: Wild Bolivia Tranquilidad Heirloom

Wild Bolivia Tranquilidad Heirloom-designated dark chocolate with toasted coconut. Tranquilidad cacao beans are tiny and difficult to process, but the pure “Boliviano” […]

April 22, 2024April 25, 2024A Day in the Life, Bean-to-Bonbon Chocolate

Heirloom No.1: Original Alto Beni

Our first batch of chocolate from HCP No.1, the (mostly unobtainable) original Alto Beni Heirloom-designated cacao. The genetics are somewhat different from […]

April 10, 2024April 13, 2024Bean-to-Bonbon Chocolate

Rare Alto Beni Heirloom No.1 Cacao

Roger’s breaking into the Wild Bolivia Alto Beni Heirloom No.1 beans. The genetics of this cacao give it a spectacular and unusual […]

February 24, 2024February 26, 2024A Day in the Life, Bean-to-Bonbon Chocolate

Drinking Chocolate Tables

Drinking Chocolate Tablets to make at home. Roger just pulled the chocolate off the melanger (grinder), stirred in organic sugar and this […]

Cacao Beans
February 13, 2024February 24, 2024Bean-to-Bonbon Chocolate

VIDEO: Sorting Ghana Cacao

Sorting Ghana Fair Trade cacao beans. As bean-to-bonbon chocolatiers, we can produce our own fantastic working chocolate for a fraction of the […]

Heirloom Cacao
January 9, 2024April 1, 2024A Day in the Life, Bean-to-Bonbon Chocolate, Sourcing

An Heirloom Year for Chocolate

IT WASN’T ALWAYS LIKE THIS. Did physics when it was cool, or at least, outrageously cold. Did tech when the ‘net was […]

December 2, 2023December 6, 2023Bean-to-Bonbon Chocolate, Chocolate Bars

Three Views of Sunrise Bar

Candied pineapple. Candied yuzu. Cacao nibs. Beginnings.

November 30, 2023November 30, 2023Bean-to-Bonbon Chocolate, Chocolate Bars

Far From the Tree Bar

Cinnamon and candied apple slices in Mexico Communitario dark milk chocolate. A very elegant bar. the apples are tartthe cinnamon warmtastes of […]

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Finding Good Chocolate

The Cookbook Project

Featuring Dancing Lion Chocolate Listen to the podcast * Read the book

Chocolate As Art

Thai Fish Dish with Four Bonbons
Thai Animal Dish with Four Bonbons
December 5, 2020

Past Bars

Past Bonbons

The Shop is Closed

Bars and bonbons are finished, the cafe is no more--
We've wrapped up production and closed up the store.

Watch this Site for our Continuing Adventures...

Richard Tango-Lowy
Concepcion, Alajuela province, Atenas, Costa Rica


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