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December 6, 2025December 6, 2025A Day in the Life, Travelogue

Lost on a Coffee Farm

Ah, cacao! O beautiful rhomboids, textured in smooth roughness. Only one of you is ripe, but your silken fruit is tangy and […]

November 19, 2025December 29, 2025Heirloom Cacao Preservation

Doin’ the Work

Non-profits are sexy from the outside in, but… The real work ain’t just the outside in, but the inside out. Review a […]

November 12, 2025November 12, 2025Chocolate Bars

Golden Web

Mexico Almendra Blanca & Soconusco dark milk chocolate with ginger and Gold Thread black tea. She weaves touches, each night repairs the […]

November 12, 2025November 12, 2025A Day in the Life, Chocolate Bars

Working Chocolate

Haven’t worked chocolatesince I wrapped up the shopBut something tells me I’mnot gonna stop. It’s calling… My home kitchen here isbarely equipped […]

November 11, 2025November 11, 2025Cookbook Project

Loafing Around

Partial whole wheat with lightly-candied walnuts. Just loafing today. Not strictly true– Made bread. Started the preferment yesterday, Baked today. Satisfied some […]

November 11, 2025November 11, 2025A Day in the Life

Guessing Game

Holiday ornament? Nonononono; not the holidays yet! Inset for a stained glass window? Sort of reminds me of something I found when […]

November 11, 2025November 11, 2025A Day in the Life

Cacao!

“The seeds in those pod are pale and white because the embryos are just solidifying from their clear gel-like endosperm state, not […]

November 7, 2025November 7, 2025A Day in the Life, Chocolate Bars

A Tea & Chocolate Morning

The morning tea, chocolate on the tip of my tongue, clear sky. Almost awake! The chocolate is the very last “Fresa” bar […]

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Finding Good Chocolate

The Cookbook Project

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

Chocolate As Art

Peru Pods I
Peru Pod Sunrise I & II
May 24, 2015

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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