A Chocolatier’s Blog, or A Series of semi-random events in an ongoing quest for happiness and chocolate.
Marianella opens a cacao pod we just harvested at an Heirloom Cacao farm in Ecuador. #ecolechocolatecuador #dlcconfections #artisanchocolate #nhfood #manchestereatsnh
Rich and cacao farmer Pedro at an one of the farms associated with Heirloom Cacao Cooperativa Nueva Esperanza, Puerto Quito, Ecuador. #ecolechocolatecuador #dlcconfections #hcpcacao #heirloomcacao #nhfood
Cacao drying on racks at El Quetzal on Mindo. The scent of fermented alcohol is powerful. #dlcconfections #ecolechocolatecuador
Testing cacao beans for proper fermentation in Mindo, Ecuador in the Andes Mountains. There are both National and Criollo elrmwnts in this sample. #dlcconfections #ecolechocolatecuador #nhfood
Noshing nibs and unroasted cacao in Ecuador today. #dlcconfections #ecolechocolatecuador
Tasting Mindo Chocolate’s Miel de Cacao (boiled down cacao fruit) at El Quetzal on Mindo, Ecuador. #dlcconfections #ecolechocolatecuador
Adjusting to altitude Nine thousand three hundred and fifty feet above the level of the sea which is pretty darned close to […]
Chocolate lives on a slab of New Hampshire granite hewn from the moody Whites an hour North of where I’m cutting, melting, […]
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