Chocolate Writing

While Vietnam isn’t currently world-renowned for its cacao— though it’s getting there— the country’s locally-made chocolate has been growing in popularity over the last decade. Despite not being on anyone’s …

It would be offensive to send you to a Godiva Chocolate in Vietnam. It really would be. After all that I’ve seen of the chocolate and cacao production in this …

“You come all this way just to see my farm, and I must show you it.” When the owner & operator of TL Chocolates & Cacao Farm said this to …

Many people confuse the countries of Taiwan and China. Citizens of both places speak mostly Mandarin, and many share Chinese ancestry. But indigenous culture on Taiwan is not to be …

“It’s a joy to wake up and go to work every day, knowing what we’re going to be doing with the rest of our day, AND it’s [still considered to …

“The first bean to bar chocolate I ever tasted was my own— and I’m sure it was really bad. But I thought it was so exciting, so amazing, that I …

It’s the 1950’s; your country is poor and in the throes of recovery from WWII— but in the south, there’s the promise of land. The Japanese occupied the Philippines for …

“I think even if the [cacao] beans are all the same, but the makers are different, the outcome is very different.” -Emily Paek, Founder of Public Chocolatory Emily Paek was …

Korean chocolate is a topic close to my heart, as I’ve been living in South Korea for the last three years, and watched the local market blossom. However, South Korea …

“I almost give up… It’s very difficult, because you’re dealing with these farmers who have been in this practice for 40 years, 50 years. It’s really very difficult to change …