"Eating chocolates is no longer like when we were kids... we snacked on chocolates, it's more about enjoying eating a good piece of chocolate. It's like a lifestyle."-Ronald Ng, Co-founder of Lemuel Chocolate Singapore is much better known for its …
Podcast Show Notes
Chocolate On The Road: The Rise of Milk Alternatives
"I look at my sister's kids... and I think that the chocolate that we're making today is the kind of nostalgia that I want to give them, because I think it's a better system for the future."-Joshua Rosen, Founder of Charm School Chocolate Coconut …
Chocolate On The Road: India
"Actually fermenting and drying cacao the way it's supposed to be takes money and effort. And I think in India today, a farmer would start doing it only when he [sic] sees money on the table."-Karthikeyan Palaniswami, Co-Founder of Soklet …
Chocolate On The Road: Malaysia
"The Malaysian grower cannot survive at prices that are coming out of Africa. The living standards are different; labor costs are different."Ning-Geng Ong, Founder of Chocolate Concierge Malaysian origin chocolates are about as common as Cambodian …
Interview: Dr. Kristy Leissle, Cocoa Researcher & Scholar
"The reality here [in Ghana] is that cocoa is kind of it... Cocoa is part of the national identity here."-Dr. Kristy Leissle, Cocoa Researcher & Scholar With 15 years of cocoa research in West Africa under her belt, Dr. Kristy Leissle is …
Interview: Jan Schubert, Conservation Leader at Original Beans Chocolate
"I would say... for the farmers we're working with, [for] eighty percent of them cacao is the most important income solution, but for zero percent it's their only income."-Jan Schubert, Conservation Leader at Original Beans Chocolate Jan Schubert …
Interview: Samuel Maruta, Co-Founder of Marou Chocolate
"Just because nobody's told you you could, doesn't mean you can't."-Samuel Maruta, Co-Founder of Marou Chocolate Samuel Maruta is the co-founder of Marou Chocolate, a craft chocolate company based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Since its founding …
Interview: Sunita De Tourreil, Founder of The Chocolate Garage
"How do we keep bringing change to this supply chain, and keep introducing new ways of doing things, so we don't fall into the trap of 'business as usual'?"-Sunita De Tourreil, Founder of The Chocolate Garage Sunita De Tourreil has spend the last …
Interview: Matt Caputo, CEO of Caputo’s Market & Deli
"I do wish more people had an appreciation for what an incredible labor of love goes into craft chocolate, and how this is not an industry for people who want to get rich."-Matt Caputo, CEO of Caputo's Market & Deli Matt Caputo is a well-known …
Chocolate On The Road: Is Chocolate Going Extinct?
"Every single craft chocolate maker in the United States could say 'we want to buy cocoa from Ghana and [the] Ivory Coast,' and it would be like the tiniest droplet in the humongous ocean that is cocoa in West Africa."-Dr. Kristy Leissle, Author of …
