Antidote "red label" chocolate contains nothing but high-quality cocoa beans from Ecuador, says Red R.
The shop, which touts its "bean to bar" process, sources cocoa beans from all over the world.
The protectionism inspired the elder Chuang and his siblings to create Silver Queen, using local cocoa beans and cashews.
In addition, she created a "snack nut" version to show-off the flavor: chocolate-covered pieces of cocoa beans packed in unadorned glass jars.
Oh, sure, ADM operates factories that crush oil out of soybeans and sunflowers, grind wheat into flour and turn cocoa beans into powder.
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Or take your chocolate straight and chomp on raw cocoa beans.
Their speciality is single origin bars, where all the cocoa beans come from a specific region such as Santander in Colombia or Sambirano in Madagascar.
Most cocoa farmers have never tasted chocolate, and produce cocoa beans without any idea of how they will be used, says Timothy Childs, Tcho's founder.
Ms. McDonald now likes to hold up two jars of cocoa beans under potential customers' noses and ask them which one looks nicer and smells better.
Mr. Shapiro also welcomed initiatives by the Ivory Coast government to support the cocoa industry, such as the introduction of a minimum price for farmers' cocoa beans.
The one-hour, guided walk moves through a candy-coloured maze of equipment as a Theo employee explains how the company sources its cocoa beans and what their techniques are for turning them into chocolate.
Ghana's cocoa industry almost collapsed in the 1970s and 1980s after years of government mismanagement, rising costs, fierce competition from other cocoa-producing nations, and falling world market prices for cocoa beans.
Using a variety of jury-rigged spice grinders, heaters and temperature sensors, he has worked out how to get cocoa beans to reveal their complex flavours and to get chocolate to solidify evenly.
Her customers have come up with new ideas, inspired by her product, and such collaborations have resulted in additional products, including Rooibos tea with Blyss cocoa beans and bath essences with Blyss cocoa extract.
The luxury chocolatier sells nothing but chocolate made from superlative cocoa beans -- from Venezuela, Ecuador, the Caribbean, Africa and Madagascar -- in various guises: ganaches, pralines, tarts, cakes and their infamous chocolate eclair.
You choose the beans and the type of milk or cream, and if your guests want tea or hot cocoa, it also dispenses hot water on command, along with hot milk, frothed milk, or any milk combo you want.
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