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Category: A Day in the Life

A Chocolatier’s Blog, or A Series of semi-random events in an ongoing quest for happiness and chocolate.

January 20, 2023January 20, 2023A Day in the Life, Edible Art

Making Art

Logging a moment of random creation though you aren’t privy to the inner and outer dialog of art, engineering and moments of […]

January 18, 2023January 20, 2023A Day in the Life

Bonbon Sharing Boxes

We finally have LARGE BONBON SHARING BOXES again. Been making bonbons as quickly as we can. Shop for Chocolate

January 17, 2023January 17, 2023A Day in the Life

Temper.

Tempering puns are a dime a dozen in a chocolate shop. Watch your temper, no mean streak today. And mind your feet […]

January 6, 2023January 6, 2023A Day in the Life

Poetry

Monica asks “do you have a time or process for writing poetry?” No way, I say. It’s not that way. I can […]

December 24, 2022January 10, 2023A Day in the Life

Shipping Chocolate

Anabel’s swell. And she’s still shipping chocolate, I can tell. But that was then and this is now, and there’s not much […]

December 6, 2022December 6, 2022A Day in the Life

Art for Chocolate

We just painted these transfer sheets for hand-dipped bonbons. The two bonbons are related, and so is their art. Shop for Chocolate

December 5, 2022December 6, 2022A Day in the Life

Sesame Seeds

Black & white sesame seed praliné for bonbons. We’ll grind it to a paste and fold in chocolate. The flavor is intense […]

November 26, 2022November 26, 2022A Day in the Life

Haiku, Verse, and Tea

I sit and drink tea from a warm ceramic bowl. A moment of peace. I look to the sky with longing in […]

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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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