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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.

Giant Bonbon for Dr. A
July 31, 2015February 11, 2026A Day in the Life

Hats on a Wall, Giant Bonbon for Dr. A

Exhibit A. Candace introduced her friend Sirenna to Dancing Lion Chocolate. Sirenna’s hat kept Rich’s hat company. Exhibit B. Rich crafted a […]

June 12, 2015February 11, 2026A Day in the Life

Impressions of Van Gogh in Chocolate #VanGogh #Chocolate

Dancing Lion Chocolate Artist in Residence Katherine Donovan paints her impressions of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night Over the Rhone” using tinted […]

April 11, 2015A Day in the Life, Past is Passed

Rain Forest

We are sitting around a wooden table on a high mountain near the west coast town of Mayaguez. Donna’s reading a book, […]

Rain Forest Fruit
April 10, 2015April 12, 2015A Day in the Life

Bananas…

We came looking for cacao, but we keep finding bananas. Many bananas. Tiny, sweet bananas. Thick, stubby bananas. Fried bananas for breakfast, […]

Chocolate Seder Eggs
April 4, 2015February 11, 2026A Day in the Life

Seder Eggs

Freshly hatched Chocolate Seder Eggs for your Passover table. We have exactly these three! From the left: Shank Bone – Pear marshmallow […]

February 27, 2015February 27, 2015A Day in the Life

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, […]

Cacao Pod in Arecibo
February 19, 2015February 20, 2015A Day in the Life, Past is Passed

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.com
February 13, 2015October 27, 2015A Day in the Life

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 […]

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Finding Good Chocolate

The Cookbook Project

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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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