Interviews

“As soon as the show got aired… we emptied out within 24 hours. So we had to start shipping out pallets and pallets of chocolate …

“Marketing can help, but… it shouldn’t be [the] primary reason that someone purchases a product.” -Julia Choi-Rodriguez, Co-founder of Vesta Chocolate Julia & Roger Rodriguez …

“The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.” -Megan Giller, Author of Bean To Bar & Chocolate Noise In the chocolate world, …

“I don’t think sustainability should break down at the last mile.” -Pashmina Lalchandani, CEO of Bar & Cocoa Pashmina kinda started Bar & Cocoa “by …

“If somebody wants to buy anything from another country, they have to be more responsible to the end of it… like a marriage, you have …

“I hope it’s kind of like a series of Trojan Horses made out of chocolate… introducing the idea, hopefully, of complementary medicine or natural products …

“We have this motto… never ask your customer what they want, because they of course have no idea what they want. A customer, a consumer, …

“Against all odds, you know, these growers who were at one time among thousands— and now we’re down to really a handful of growers— the …

“I was the first person that came to East Timor and asked about East Timor cacao… one of the guys there had somehow gotten a …

“Sugar is demonized.” -Ayano Kimura, Co-founder of Böhnchen & Co. Chocolate When I was a kid, discovering my Mom’s chocolate stash in the pantry was …