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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.

July 31, 2020July 31, 2020A Day in the Life

Local Raspberries

Fresh local raspberries and a vanilla pod from Papua New Guinea for seasonal bonbons.

July 30, 2020July 31, 2020A Day in the Life

Bread

This week’s BREAD is bourbon-soaked candied orange in a light wheat. Ready Friday at 1pm. Reserve on our website. #chocolatier #bread #oranges […]

July 18, 2020July 18, 2020A Day in the Life

Chocolate Croissants

Chocolate croissants with 3 kinds of chocolate. Looking nice today. We prefer ours to traditional pain au chocolat–a different shape and format–because […]

July 18, 2020July 18, 2020A Day in the Life

Making Croissants

Rachel and I making croissants for the day’s bake. Croissant mornings are a very Zen time. Until the shop opens, that is.

June 23, 2020June 24, 2020A Day in the Life

Making Chocolate.

Tuesday is cacao roasting day. I’ll be grinding this batch into chocolate on Thursday. Batch #6 of pur Brazilian 72%. #chocolatier #beantobonbon […]

June 19, 2020June 20, 2020A Day in the Life

Juneteenth

In honor of Juneteenth weekend, our good friend and musician D Heywood will be providing a fitting selection of Unifying tunes in […]

June 12, 2020June 13, 2020A Day in the Life, At Our Cafe

Chocolate Swirl Babka

We’re playing with iterations on BABKA this month. I make with with our own slack dough–long proof, plenty of eggs, but no […]

June 5, 2020June 5, 2020A Day in the Life, At Our Cafe

Chocolate, Cinnamon, Maple. Not Babka.

TODAY’S BREAD isn’t BABKA, but it likes to think it is. Lot’s of cinnamon, chocolate, and maple, but no dairy.

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Finding Good Chocolate

The Cookbook Project

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

Chocolate As Art

Evening Emergence
January 25, 2025

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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