Bananas…
We came looking for cacao, but we keep finding bananas. Many bananas. Tiny, sweet bananas. Thick, stubby bananas. Fried bananas for breakfast, […]
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.
Seder Eggs
Freshly hatched Chocolate Seder Eggs for your Passover table. We have exactly these three! From the left: Shank Bone – Pear marshmallow […]
Supplier Spotlight: Mesocacao
Mesocacao is redefining the scope of what it means to be a chocolate maker. One of Dancing Lion Chocolate’s newest chocolate suppliers, […]
So Much to Learn
Rich is taking a few moments to read “Cacao domestication I: the origin of the cacao cultivated by the Mayas” by MC […]
SMITHSONIAN: The Physics of Chocolate
I’ve been doing this now for 18 years, and I keep loving it more and more, because chocolate is such a ridiculously […]
Nicaraguan Chocolate in Manchester
Mark Harman of Mesocacao will be visiting Dancing Lion Chocolate (weather permitting) in the morning (Tuesday). Mesocacao produces the Matagalpa, Nicaragua 80% […]
The Missing Link
To me “buying local”, means Matt, the Marine-turned-farmer who sells me my eggs. For us New Englanders, we have an abundance of local farms and […]
Fine Chocolate, or Mass Market?
“It’s chocolate so it has to be good.” This line has recently come to make me cringe. Just like coffee or wine, […]
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