Experiences in the world of fine chocolate
The Creator: Making chocolate is an art. Artisan small batch chocolate makers create the lucious dark bars we all love so much from scratch. They start with roasting cocoa beans, crack them into nibs and winnow the lose shell. Next, the nibs are ground them into a cocoa mass. Finally, by conching this mass, the […]
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About Zoto Being interested in the origin chocolate world, means you look around for opportunities to taste new chocolates and to meet people who share your interest. Some time ago, I was introduced to Zoi Papalexandratou and Tom De Winne at a tasting I hosted. Zoi and Tom, both engineers in bio-applied science, run Zoto. A […]
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The Creator: Summer in Belgium. Temperatures drop below 20°C. While this is bad news for people enjoying their hollidays, it means I can finally pull out some chocolate bars from my stock again. Time for some reviews! Today a bar made by Republica Del Cacao. A company based in Ecuador, dedicated to set quality bars […]
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The Creator: Belgium has long been a country renowned for chocolate. Industrial chocolate. But since the start of the bean to bar revolution in the chocolate world, only a few brave Belgians ventured into making their own product from the bean on. Mario Vandeneede, founder of Chocolatoa, is on a mission teach the Belgian and […]
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The Creator: I’ve reviewed quiet some bars since the day I’ve started this website. Yet today we have a bar which represents three first times. A Portuguese bean-to-bar chocolate, a European all lady chocolate company and cocoa grown in Jamaica. Where do I even start? Thanks to the wonderful mission of my friends at bean2bar2you.be […]
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Bitterzoetchocolade.be (Bittersweet chocolate in English) is a Belgian based origin chocolate shop run by Isabelle Quireynen. Isabelle is very active in the chocolate world, as she organises tastings and is a Belgian wholesale contact for Cacaosuyo and a wide array of fine chocolate brands in combination with El Sauco – a large origin chocolate importer […]
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The Creator When you start following the bean to bar movement around the world, you notice it is expanding rapidly. And chocolate makers pop up from the most unexpected places. Today I present to you Zart Pralinen, an Austrian based bean to bar producer. That’s right. Austria. The country next to Switzerland. Known for it’s […]
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The Creator Marou is one of the brands who surprised me big time when I first learned about fine chocolate. During a tasting session, their Ben Tré bar really stood up amidst many other nice chocolates, due to it’s distinct and unique flavors. The company has come far over the recent years. Vincent Mourou and […]
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The Creator Vietnam. Today more than ever, the name of this country is linked to fine chocolate. During the 19th century, cocoa was introduced on the fertile soils embraced by a climate loved by the cocoa tree. Only as recent as the beginning of this century, the chocolate producing world turned it’s head to this […]
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The Creator: Belgian chocolate. Ever since I discovered the bean to bar scene, Belgian chocolate tumbled from its pedestal. It is an industrial, technical mass-made product, ripped of the wonderful flavors cocoa can bring and in general offering an overly sweet and dull taste. Yet today I review a Belgian made bar. In the vast […]
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