When I started my first business,Chicago Chocolate Tours, in 2005, there were few chocolate makers who purchased cocoa beans to grind them into chocolate, compared with chocolatiers who purchase chocolate that has already been made—often by a large company using bulk cacao from the slave labor ...
In the meantime, an oldie but goodie for you: here is asizzle reelof clips from some of my TV appearances during the Chicago Chocolate Tours days — the first company I founded, and the first chocolate tour company in the world, based on an idea I developed when I was 19, though I ...
and is the second-oldest chocolate company in the United States, after Baker’s Chocolate (founded in 1764), which we would send you to, but they don’t seem to have any factory tours or stores at their Dover, Delaware, location. So head to the City by the Bay instead, and ...