Today I went to Fran's Chocolates in Seattle. I was in the area for the annual Northwest Chocolate UnConference & Festival, and Marc, one of my mentors, recommended visiting them. The shop was in a large building that used to be a brewery & maltery, and in the corner, there was a table and shelves with various imaginative products on them. There was a display case with a collection of truffles, and I would later lean that these had all been reworked dozens of times. We then

Today I took the full tour of Twenty-Four Blackbirds. Once before, I had been there, and taken a short tour. Problem is, Twenty-Four...

Today (and also the day before and the day before that and also the day before that as well as the day before that, so a total of five...

Today, I went to andSons, a favorite. I had a reason, though, and that was that about two months ago, my brother graduated, and he got a...

Today I went to Wally's Fine Wines in search of bars. I'd been there before, but they change out their selection of chocolates every so...

Today I took a second lengthy drive down to Twenty Four Blackbirds, another chocolatier that was well outside our radar before we decided...

Today I drove about an hour to Huntington Beach for a chocolatier I'd found quite interesting, called Bella Sophia Chocolates. As I had...

The morning of the second day of the second trip to San Francisco in the second week in a row for the second chocolate trade show in SF,...

If you have just finished reading my last post, you know what this will be about. If you didn't, a) go read it, and b) I'm about to...

A few weeks ago, I visited San Francisco. I had been a few weeks prior for a family event, but I find it quite difficult to make San...

This post, as well as talking about my experiences with Indian chocolate, I will be speaking about how Indian chocolate differs from the...

Today I went to the Chocolate Dispensary for the second time, having been there once before. However, they recently opened up a cafe and...

Before I begin, I must point out that this is not a regular blog post. This post aims to inform the reader of how chocolate is made, from...

Today we went to See's Candies. As before with Ghirardelli, I was here to compare and contrast fine and industrial chocolate. There were...

Today we went to Ghirardelli Chocolates, who had recently opened up a store nearby. Now, before you criticize me for not doing more fine...

Today we went to Artisanal Goods by CAR, a chocolatier we had visited before, but had never posted about it. It seems like they expanded...

Today we went to the Chocolate Dispensary, a chocolate store that was a pretty long drive away from us. It was a bit like Farmshop, in...

The second and third days of the UnConference were almost identical to last year's, but there were some differences, which you will see...

This post and the next post will cover what transpired over the four days that we were in Bellevue, Washington for the Chocolate Makers UnConference and Festival. This was the place where I met Anne (read more about that in one of my other posts) and Snooky, among many others. As per usual, we flew in Wednesday night, October 3. The first night was just unpacking, getting our stuff together, and just general prep for the next three days. Just like before, there were going to

Today, we took a tour of Letterpress Chocolate, one of the most visited places on our tour. You may ask, why didn't they do a tour...