After a very long dry spell, we recently added two new chocolate makers to our collection, both made in their countries of origin. Last week we launched Momotombo Chocolate, hailing from Nicaragua. Today we are excited to introduce Mission Chocolate, coming to us directly from São Paulo, Brazil. Not only is Mission Chocolate made in […]
Momotombo Chocolate started its journey as a chocolate company with “Just a pot, a fire and a spoon,” to quote founder, Carlos Mann. Carlos’ vision was to create “fresh” chocolate using methods that could be replicated in any home kitchen in Nicaragua using a clay comale and a homemade pot. This Chocolate Fresco was easy […]
Today we’re featuring Korkowski #2, but only #2 in the order we’ve featured him and not in the order of importance! Dave Korkowski is the other half of the chocolate-loving Korkowski duo that includes his wife Marjorie who I recently profiled. The two of them met in first grade at the St. Anne’s School on […]
Liz Gotterer has been a member of our monthly chocolate tasting panel for many years now. She was drawn to the tasting panel because she hadn’t developed a vocabulary to describe flavor and texture differences, and she wanted to have the opportunity to taste a lot of chocolate and understand what she liked best before […]
I first met Kris Recarde Saada on July 10, 2014. She attended a chocolate demonstration by Jacques Dahan of Chocolat Michel Cluizel that we held in our kitchen at the Queen Anne store. She has been a devoted customer ever since. While I can’t take credit for introducing Kris to craft chocolate, I can take […]
I have to be honest and say that I don’t remember the first time I met Marjorie Korkowski. I’ve known her for a long time now, first as a chocolate-loving customer and then as a good friend. She discovered Chocolopolis the month after we opened in 2008 while searching for a particular bar of chocolate […]
In Part I of my post, I focused on the changes and significant growth in the ranks of craft chocolate makers between 2008 and 2018. Now let me turn to the changes and innovations that have happened in cacao sourcing in the past ten years. When we opened in 2008 the craft chocolate market was […]
Ten years ago on July 2, 2008 at 4:37 pm we opened our doors and made our first sale. What was our first sale? It was an Amedei 63% with Almonds for $12.00. It’s a bar we no longer carry, and its one of the few with a lower price point a decade later. More […]
I sat down to write my reflections on ten years in the chocolate industry with the intention of posting something before I left to speak at the Fine Chocolate Industry Association in New York at the end of June. I started writing and I found that I couldn’t stop. I had so much to say. […]
This week’s customer spotlight is on long-time customer Monali Patel. I first met Monali in 2012 as the store was celebrating its fourth anniversary. She attended Dr. Kristy Leissle’s talk at Chocolopolis on “Fair, Free and Direct Trade” and introduced herself then. A chocolate lover with a passion for supporting mission-driven organizations, Monali received her […]
