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The 2023 International Chocolate Awards Americas Competition winners were just announced and our Almendra Blanca bar won USA Gold in the Micro-Batch Plain/Origin bar category!  We had 21 winners in…

Food Network Kitchen interviewed Monica to get the 411 on cacao!  Read the full article here.  

The 2023 Good Food Awards ceremony was held this past weekend in Portland, and we’re excited and proud to announce our Ucayali bar is a winner.  This is our 6th…

We’ve read many articles over the years describing the potential health benefits of dark chocolate, but haven’t posted about them.  Why?  Well, one reason is we’re not medical professionals, and…

Understanding where your food comes from is incredibly important.  Most people usually have very little understanding of where their food is grown, the process by which it reaches them, and…

Chocolate comes from a fruit!  In this video from our sourcing trip to Ecuador we show you how to open a ripe cacao pod.  

When we communicate our chocolate’s value proposition, one of the terms we use is Bean to Bar.  Being craft chocolate makers so heavily involved with the weight and intricacies of…

Looking for the perfect gift for your favorite chocolate lovers?  Then we have good news – Forbes did all the work for you in their 2022 Gift Guide!  And we…

The Northwest Chocolate Festival is the largest craft chocolate festival in the country, and this year we were very happy to be back at the festival in person!  It was…

Affet two years of virtual gatherings we were excited to finally attend The Northwest Chocolate Festival in-person this year!  It was two nonstop days of chocolate sampling and education, and…

The awards for the International Chocolate Awards, America’s competition were just announced, and we have 15 winners, including Gold for our Asochivite with Maple bar – that’s more winners than…

We’re excited and proud to announce that we won seventeen 2022 Academy of Chocolate Awards – more than any other maker in North America!  Our winners include four golds: Special…

You’ve probably seen the term Fair Trade a lot on product packaging.  When you see that label you probably assume that people all along the supply chain, from farmers on…

The Washington Post recently published an excellent article, “Cocoa’s Child Laborers,” detailing the issues with child labor and unsafe working conditions in the global cacao supply chain. The article explains…

We’re a small business, and we actively search out and support other small businesses in our community.  We’d like to share why the concept of small business is so important…

We’re proud to announce our Boyaca bar is our fifth consecutive Good Food Award Winner! The Good Food Awards are unique in that all submissions must meet strict criteria for…

We’re proud to share that our 2021 Sofi award winners are our El Carmen 77% bar, Classic Milk bar and our El Carmen Hot Cocoa! The sofi awards recognize the…

It’s that time of year again!  Time for all the ghosts at our 200 year old farm to once again haunt our historic barn. Considering they wait all year for…

We’re thrilled to be included in Food & Wine’s list of the Best Chocolate in America! Food & Wine is widely regarded as the premier publication in the food world,…

We’ve been fans of Melissa Clark since falling in love with her seasonal cookbook “Cook This Now,” and we avidly follow her weekly “A Good Appetite” column in The New…

The Wall Street Journal features our Hot Chocolate in their recent article “Soothing Hot Chocolate Strategies!  You can view the story here, although you’ll need to register or have a subscription…

Shortly after Food & Wine named us to their list of the Best Chocolate in America NECN asked to interview us.  We were happy to oblige, and the resulting segment…

The International Chocolate Awards just announced the winners of their Drinking Chocolate Competition and we’re proud to announce our Asochivite Hot Cocoa won Silver and our Almendra Blanca Hot Cocoa…

Last year we were fortunate to make history as the first chocolate maker to sweep the Dark Chocolate category at the Specialty Food Association’s annual Sofi Awards.  This year we…

We’ve been doing live videos to show various aspects of our chocolate making process, and people who’ve missed them have asked us to post them online.  So, our YouTube channel…

Each week legendary food writer Florence Fabricant highlights a few of her favorite specialty foods in her “Front Burner” column.  We’re honored to be included as one of her picks….

One of our goals when we started was to make great tasting, ethically sourced craft chocolate available to as many people as possible.  Most high quality single origin bars were…

Chronicle came to visit us and showcase our chocolate making process!

We’re heading to Ecuador and Peru next week for a sourcing trip, so this seems like a good time to talk about how we buy our cacao beans. You’ll often…