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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

Chocolate Fables
May 7, 2021

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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