Chocolate Trends

Korean chocolate is a topic close to my heart, as I’ve been living in South Korea for the last three years, and watched the local market blossom. However, South Korea …

The end of the year is when most of us spend extra time with our families and relax after a long year. We look forward to the events the new …

For some people (like yours truly), finding amazing chocolate in surprising places is reason enough to travel. But traveling for chocolate is not as simple as going to a different country to …

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 have described craft chocolate, often …

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 before I can even remember, …

​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 days it’s likely you could …

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 shrinking). But I’m also not …

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 how large it would grow …

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 Washington D.C. to a South …

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 several years now. But without …