Category: A Day in the Life

April 3, 2018A Day in the Life, Past is Passed

Ode to Cocoa Butter

Cocoa butter is beautiful. It’s the difference between cocoa powder and chocolate, and from a physics standpoint, it’s what makes chocolate interesting. […]

April 3, 2018A Day in the Life, Past is Passed

Bars and bonbons… Just made I’x Jaguar bars and am onto Blues Bars now. Next will be Picassos. Also working on a Matcha & Vanilla bonbon.

March 29, 2018March 29, 2018A Day in the Life, Chocolate Bars

Physics, Poetry, and Chocolate

Mindfully Making Quantum Bars. Quarks fill the bristles of my brush and the spaces between. Over and over I scribe the emptiness […]

March 23, 2018March 23, 2018A Day in the Life, At Our Cafe

Vanilla Matcha Latte

Ceremony grade matcha, local milk. Zen moment (for me, at least).

March 22, 2018March 22, 2018A Day in the Life, Past is Passed

Pomelo, Tea, Puerto Rican Chocolate

Preparing to mold precious Forteza PUERTO RICAN dark chocolate with candied pomelo and Chinese black tea.

March 22, 2018March 22, 2018A Day in the Life, Past is Passed

Keeping Sharp

SHARPENING KNIVES keeps me sharp as well as the knives. There’s much to do today, but this is time well-spent. I use […]

March 21, 2018March 21, 2018A Day in the Life, At Our Cafe

Chocolate Chai

I’ve been drinking a lot of these lately.

March 20, 2018January 1, 2023A Day in the Life, Cacao Connoissieur's Club

Chocolate from Puerto Rico

Breaking down couverture chocolate from Forteza Chocolate in Puerto Rico. A really wild and unusual flavor profile, but I only have 10lbs… […]