Interview

“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 …

“The vast majority of the farming community still doesn’t know that they are actually working against nature… Everything is the latest generation of chemicals.” -Harish …

“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, …

“Having a business is like having children; it doesn’t really make sense money-wise, and it’s the same with a small business.” -Barbara Wilson, Co-Founder of …

“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 …

“When we first started trying to purchase beans, when we called up the bean broker… we said, you know, we just want to buy one …

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 …

“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 …