🍫🇬🇩 A nice focus on L'Esterre in Grenada in this week's #NotesOnChocolate column.
We've enjoyed craft chocolate made with L'Esterre's lovely beans before, but Annalisa Barbieri gets to sample on their own-made chocolate buttons.
theguardian.com/food/2024/may/…

We are devouring with delight this new bar in the Bakery Series from ⁦Pump Street Chocolate⁩ which combines dark chocolate from West Papua with subtle flavours of aniseed and orange peel, as found in the Gibassier pastry of Provence. Gorgeous

#MayThe4thBeWithYou this #StarWars Day
🌠Your annual reminder that #chocolate is in canon in #StarWars !
🍫That's a good enough reason to enjoy some #CraftChocolate today
☕Try a hot chocolate with tauntaun milk & orchid bean extract, mallow paste, & sprinkle of tang bark to taste

Grenada Chocolate Festival- where the happiness of chocolate's rich flavors fills the air. Let's spread joy together with every sweet bite! 🍫🤎

Join us at the Grenada Chocolate Festival from May 15th-20th.

📷: Istra Bell 🇬🇩

#GrenadaChocolateFest #PureGrenada

Award-winning Cacao Fruit Truffles popping up Penshurst Place on Sunday and Monday!
#beantobar #craftchocolate #cacaopulp #truffles #BankHolidayWeekend

We’re enjoying this simply beautiful (oat) milk bar, made with love in Amsterdam by ⁦Chocolatemakers⁩ using beans from the Village Hope programme in Sierra Leone. I have good friends in that beautiful country and would love more people to savour the cacao from there

Extra special bean delivery today! Very excited about these, an unusual fermentation protocol has infused them with flavour.... watch this space for more details soon!

Belvie Chocolate
Coffee Mint Nibs
Milk Chocolate Bar
55% Vietnam Cacao 

Coffee forward flavor followed bycooling mint and a pleasing crunch from the nibs. 

Do you enjoy chocolate + coffee + mint
combos?

Ordered from Bar & Cocoa

#belviechocolate #milkchocolate
#nibs

I love the colour of this bar - entirely natural and suggesting the rich flavour of the Colombian beans in this limited edition from Bonnat of Voiron in France. I adore their bars as they are lavish with cocoa butter for a sumptuous texture and melt. Formidable!

The Guardian view on the price of chocolate: cocoa producers face bitter truths | Editorial theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

If you like the sound of this it's available here

dormousechocolates.com/products/brown…

While Spencer's away at Craft Chocolate Experience: San Francisco, fellow Cocoa Runner Nick steps in for the latest #CraftChocolateMatters , with some ideas and insights on spotting #greenwashing in #chocolate :
cocoarunners.com/blog/peeling-b…

Savouring this powerful dark bar from ⁦Ruket Chocolate⁩, beans from the Beni forest north of La Paz, Bolivia, which are marketed for 1200 farmers by the long-established El Ceibo cooperative. Just two ingredients, cacao and sugar, but so balanced… strong yet mellow

Explore how an Ecuador project empowers cacao farmers to protect spider monkey habitat in this inspiring Mongabay article 🐒 🌿🍫 #Conservation #SpiderMonkeys

👉news.mongabay.com/2024/03/ecuado…

Via Mongabay

We totally adore this 62% milk from Table in Liverpool. The Haitian beans are sourced via PISA, a social enterprise that pays farmers premium prices. The bar is beautifully made, rich and flavourful and v highly recommended

When you imagine a chocolate bar, what does it look like?
We love that Naive bars challenge expectations, and show us how shape and thickness are part of the chocolate experience.

A couple of weeks ago, Spencer wrote about soaring cocoa prices for the Craft Chocolate Matters blog. Well, those prices are still going up!
This week, Spencer goes deeper into the root causes, and what the impact might be for the future of chocolate:
cocoarunners.com/blog/why-are-c…