​Days sick: 0Days danced: 0At the beginning of March, everything seemed a bit bad in Italy, but we were still planning to spend a few days in Sicily. By the end of the month we were more than two weeks deep into a required quarantine in the US. A Delightful End to Belgium When I …

“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 financial institutions than its fine food selection, and this is for good reason. The …

In these strange times of quarantine, small chocolate businesses still need our support. So in an effort to make your shopping easier, here are the best places to buy craft chocolate online. We go from the best craft chocolate on Amazon to online craft chocolate retailers (sorted by country). There are even unique gifts for …

Apparently I look Dutch. This is the number one takeaway from my Amsterdam chocolate adventure, which took me to a few dozen chocolateries across the city. I found that most chocolate shops in Amsterdam are quite small, specializing in only chocolate, with no seating or other goodies to choose from. It’s grab, and then go. …

Unlike in coffee, the chocolate industry has relatively few large conferences open to the public. The industry is still quite secretive, except for one segment— craft. The specialty, or bean to bar chocolate industry is a subset which has built its customer base on the standard of transparency. So it only makes sense that one …

“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 milk chocolate has become a pretty standard part of any …

Days sick: 0Days danced: 1Although this month started out very stressful, it ended rather tranquilo. While Asia saw coronavirus unsurprisingly explode, I left the continent and headed to Europe for the first time in nearly 7 years, making it to my first huge chocolate festival in about as much time! Seminyak, Ubud, and Done Arriving …

Like with most other parts of Asia, chocolate isn’t the first, second, or even fiftieth thing you’d associate with India. But chocolate is universal; it’s spread to markets worldwide, and India is no exception. In fact, with nearly 1.4 billion people, the Indian chocolate market is one of the fastest-growing in the world. Yet the …

Japan is a place where people will pay a eighty bucks for a melon, five dollars for a chocolate truffle, and fork over hundreds for less than a pound of beef. I’ve never before witnessed such absurdity in pursuit of exclusivity. But I don’t blame them for it, either; not after trying Kobe beef in …

“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 Indian food is famous, but Indian desserts, and certainly Indian chocolates, haven’t yet …