Chocolate Trends

Craft chocolate is on the way up, and it’s not even close to plateauing. Almost anyone in the industry even just half a decade ago would …

Not everyone can afford to make it to Paris, but most everyone has an ongoing (and at times unhealthy) relationship with chocolate. Mine started long …

​People make all sorts of stuff at home, like curry, slime, art, and beauty products. So why don’t more people make chocolate at home? These …

I put a lot of negativity on the big four chocolate companies, which still dominate the global market (though their proportion of said market is …

In many ways I can’t remember life before bean-to-bar chocolate. When I got into this industry over six years ago, I never could have imagined …

It took me an inordinate amount of time to see social media as a networking and research tool. It wasn’t until I moved from bustling …

Cacao has carved out a variety of unique identities. It didn’t happen overnight, and in fact, the idea has been floating around the industry for …

We’ve all had this experience. You find a delicious product and devour it whole, but when you go looking for more you come up empty …

Is chocolate actually healthy? The buzz around chocolate these days is focused on flavonoids and trace minerals, some of the molecules that make cacao a …