1 2 Ghirardelli was established in San Francisco in 1852 by Domingo Ghirardelli, an Italian Chocolate Maker who came to the New World at the height of the California Gold Rush. With headquarters and manufacturing in the Northern California Bay Area, Ghirardelli is one of the few premium ...
Ghirardelli was the largest chocolate factory west of the Mississippi. Besides bulk chocolate and cocoa, the company made retail goods such as instant chocolate malted milk powder. Ghirardelli also did a sizable business in mustard. The company was actually the only mustard manufacturer west of the...