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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.

Fine Chocolate Industry Association
April 28, 2016April 28, 2016A Day in the Life

Support Fine Chocolate!

The Fine Chocolate Industry Association featured my Chews Slowly bonbon on their website, along with a mention of our 50 Best Restaurants […]

Bread
March 4, 2016March 4, 2016A Day in the Life, Past is Passed

Bread. Chocolate. (At home, not the Shop)

Felt like bread today. Started yesterday. Yeast, flour, salt, water. Pepitas and dark Ghana chocolate. Stirred. Proofed overnight on on my cold […]

January 29, 2016January 29, 2016A Day in the Life

Support Your Local Cacao Farmer

There is chocolate in my head and in my mouth. The last remaining corner of a bar I made last week from […]

January 2, 2016March 13, 2016A Day in the Life, Past is Passed

Deep Chocolate Kahlua Cake

I’m craving a chocolate cake. Not an airy angel food cake. Not an elegant genoise. Not a dense truffle cake or rich […]

December 10, 2015A Day in the Life, Past is Passed

Growing Cacao the Right Way

Friend Debby forwarded us this Washington Post article on shade-grown cacao. All cacao should be grown this way–it’s a shade-loving plant! The […]

November 28, 2015A Day in the Life, At Our Cafe

#ShopDwtnMht #ShopSmall today, ’cause it’s better (not just for the free Zen Brownie.)

We don’t ask you to Shop Small because we’re small. We ask you to Shop Small because we make beautiful wonderful things […]

October 30, 2015November 5, 2015A Day in the Life, At Our Cafe

Red, White, & Chocolate

We had a wonderful visit from Chocolatier and FCIA Executive Director Karen Bryant. Dancing Lion Chocolate was  the culmination of the Eastward […]

October 25, 2015A Day in the Life

Girl Scouts & Chocolate (c1917)

Working toward a Personal Health merit badge? The 1917 edition of the Girl Scout Manual lists the follow first of 12 requirements. […]

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Finding Good Chocolate

The Cookbook Project

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

Chocolate As Art

Edible Chocolate Sculpture
September 12, 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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