Crazy Like Coqui
Almond pistachio apricot nougat. In really good hard-to-get Puerto Rico dark milk chocolate. I put slabs of nougat in a chocolate bar. Paired it with tangy Puerto Rico dark milk, and I smile at the sound of Coqui in the afternoon.
Puerto Rico
&Wisdom Bar
Puerto Rico Hacienda Jeanmarie dark chocolate 70% and dark milk chocolate 60% with bananas and mace. #chocolatier @jeanmariechocolat #oldfriends Restaurant. Old San Juan. Quiet, dark. We talk cacao and insecurities. She wants to change the world. 10 years. Birthed daughters, acquired sons. Each week she visits to laugh and talk and sip chocolate, has rarely
Arecibo (Taino Sun) Bar
If you spend time at our Shop, you’ll know I’m fond of The Enchanted Island. I had the fortune to visit Arecibo, the world’s largest radio-telescope, before it was recently decommissioned, and mountains south of the observatory are the source for much of our Puerto Rico cacao. The Taino are the indigenous people of the
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Dark Chocolate with Coffee
A limited run DARK ROAST bar: Clarena’s Colombian Coffee in Puerto Rico 70% dark chocolate. Clarena sources from woman-owned farms in South America, and the P. R. cacao is from my friend Juan Echeverria at Jeanmarie Chocolat. #chocolatier #beantobar @finechocolateindustryassoc @clarenascoffee @jeanmariechocolat
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Puerto Rican 80%
LOUD COQUI NIGHTS Lullabies are for babies–it takes the roaring strains of a Coqui symphony, music of the Puerto Rican rain forest to carry me to sleepland. Our 2019 Forteza Chocolate is loud like a Coqui frog. Paired with panela, powdered vanilla, and smoked chiles, it’s almost as good as being on the Island. We
Introducing Forteza Puerto Rican chocolate
Visiting Forteza’s chocolate manufacturing facility in San Juan. Eduardo has lovingly rebuilt most of his equipment–like this roaster–by hand. “My grandfather used this equipment” he says. It’s in the genes: the Cortes family has been making Caribbean chocolate for almost a century, but Eduardo’s the first in the line to produce fine chocolate from Puerto
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Poetry in Puerto Rico
One of my favorite shops in Old San Juan, just across the street from El Convento, a lovely hotel transformed from an old convent.
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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 in the mountains south of Arecibo, and meet with several cacao farmers on the island.
Chocolate from Puerto Rico
Breaking down couverture chocolate from Forteza Chocolate in Puerto Rico. A really wild and unusual flavor profile, but I only have 10lbs… We’re waiting to see how last year’s storms affect the May harvest.
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