Chocolate Factory
On Thursday Paul and I (and his wife Rachel and my friend Alberto) took the harrowing mountain drive to Hugo Hermelink’s chocolate […]
Category: Sourcing
Pistachio Praline
CHLOROPLASTS – Pistachio praline with Mexico Soconusco 70% dark chocolate. They grow on you.See the light.Reflect green. Just planting that thought in […]
Heirloom Cacao from Vietnam
Pulling the Vietnam Heirloom no.13 dark chocolate off the grinder. We only got 7kg of these beans, but the chocolate is fantastic. […]
Cacao beans on Elm Street
These are our AgroflorestaMesoamericana Mexico Communitario 2023 harvest just in from Tabasco, one of our favorite all-around beans. 65kg bags are heavy! […]
Heirloom No.1: Alto Beni, Bolivia
We just purchased 250kg of Volker Lehman’s spectacular Heirloom Alto Beni Cacao, the first beans ever designated as Heirloom. (Video courtesy of […]
An Heirloom Year for Chocolate
IT WASN’T ALWAYS LIKE THIS. Did physics when it was cool, or at least, outrageously cold. Did tech when the ‘net was […]
Belize Harvest
Colorful piled pods of pure Criollo Cacao; typically tiny, grafted from rare wild trees scattered in the surrounding jungle. Designated Heirloom in […]
Elmer Tzalam, Cacao Guru at BFREE Belize
Elmer oversees BFREE’s cacao farm. He’s the one who spent 3 days in the rain forest locating and tagging the wild cacao […]