April 26, 2022March 8, 2024Sourcing, Travelogue Cacao in Belize Chef Donna and I hanging out with Jacob Marlin at BFREE’s research cacao farm. BREE’s doing some interesting experiments to better understand […]
May 20, 2018March 8, 2024Sourcing, Travelogue Puerto Rico Flying into San Juan, Puerto Rico. I’ll be at the USDA research center on Monday, then we’ll visit some wild cacao trees […]
June 28, 2010March 29, 2026Sourcing A Plea to the Pastry Chef Use better chocolate. A year ago, after our last day of class at Valrhona, several fellow chocolatiers and I crossed the ancient […]