Episode 41 Overview

In this episode, I will be joined by Ale (Ecuador) and Val (US) from Masphi Chocolate. As I’ve written in other posts, one of my favorite episode formats is to interview a chocolate maker – especially when they’re checking in from a producing country – and taste and respond to their work, live.

I first discovered Mashpi in Amsterdam during Chocoa in 2016 and have some very specific, and very happy memories of a bar with an inclusion of a cacao pulp reduction/syrup.

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Episode 40 Overview

As I’ve written in other posts, one of my favorite episode formats is to interview a chocolate maker or chocolatier and taste and respond to their work, live.

In this episode, I will be interviewing Sally McFadyen co-founder of Argencove Chocolate, located in Granada, Nicaragua (where I have visited).

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Episode 39 Overview

As I’ve written in other posts, one of my favorite episode formats is to interview a chocolate maker or chocolatier and taste and respond to their work, live.

In this episode, I will be interviewing Mark Burrows of Pollinator Chocolate, which is located in Carbondale, CO.

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Episode 38 Overview

A long-time colleague (we first met in the late 1980s during my tech career) knows of my involvement in chocolate and cocoa and routinely sends me links to stories that show up in his news feed. This past Tuesday just a few hours before the previous episode of PodSaveChocolate he sent me the following link:

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As Tuesday was the day after Earth Day, it immediately occurred to me to make this the basis for an episode. I also think it’s timely given the two episodes from last on the topic The High Co$t of Expen$ive Cocoa.

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Episode 37 Overview

Believe it or not (I am having trouble believing it), we are approaching the 20th anniversary of the publication of Discover Chocolate.

Over the past months, I have been looking at how information about chocolate and cacao – from the farm to the factory to the table to tasting – is being conveyed on YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, and elsewhere. I have concluded that there is room for someone with my experience to engage on these topics in an accessible and entertaining way. I had a chance to rehearse my ideas at the Southwest Chocolate & Coffee Fest in Albuquerque in early April where I gave four Grand Tasting classes ...

Community Note: This was the 1,500th post in TheChocolateLife on Ghost! Thanks to all my members (and visitors) for their continued support!

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Episode 36 Overview

The High Co$t of Expen$ive Cocoa is a fascinatingly complex, complicated, and important topic these days. During my recent episode with this title (Part 1 to this Part 2), Juan Andres Santelices, watching on LinkedIn, asked some very interesting questions in the live chat ...

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Episode 35 Overview

The high cost of cocoa has been at the forefront of industry – and in the backs of the minds and in the wallets of consumers – for close to a year now. An episode of TheChocolateLife:LIVE back in September of 2023 is where we first took a look at this phenomenon.

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Episode 34 Overview

Destination: Albuquerque Venue: Expo NM Event: The 2024 Southwest Chocolate & Coffee Fest

The day started early, before dawn. It was a crisp (about freezing), Friday morning in early April.

After making a thermos of coffee (AeroPress) and finishing packing my rented late-model Prius, I headed out of Prescott, west along State Rtes 69 and 169 on my way to Interstate 17 where the route turns NNE through the Coconino National Forest bypassing Sedona to Flagstaff, where it intersects Interstate 40. From there the route took me more or less due east into the rising sun ...

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Episode 33 Overview

This episode of #PodSaveChocolate is dedicated to presenting the winners of the 2024 Craft Chocolat Challenge.

I was joined by Dustin Cornett, the founder of the Challenge, and we were joined by some of the winners to discuss their entries, talk about the Challenge experience, and take questions from the LIVE participants. And, this year Dustin and I were joined by Leila Carvajal from Cocoa Supply, the sponsor of the new-this-year Innovation Awards.

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Episode 32 Overview

This is the monthly News Roundup and AMA episode of #PodSaveChocolate.

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