Hmmm great choice

As a Ugandan myself I am very interested to learn more about how Latitude Chocolate handles its business. Any way i can reach out?

This was great! Cool climate whites and rose work really well with chocolate!

We loved visiting them. Kokoa Kamili is amazing too

Can I throw some cacao powder and cayenne pepper into an ACV footbath for a wild ride?(I did something slightly crazy today, but it would take very long to explain it)

I was very disappointed with the discussion at the close of your forum...why because I was led to believe that the program was going to be centred around artisanal or craft chocolatiers emerging in Africa. Of course one cannot discuss chocolate without throwing light on cocoa. However I feel the discussion was wholly centred on glorifying a handful of persons of European origin who setup production of chocolate making in Sao Tome and Madagascar. I don't know if the sole intent was to provide a platform to market the two brands that emerged from the two countries ostensibly as African. But these are people who came to setup and rely on the exploits of native people. I was further appalled when in both cases the brands were talked about as though they were benevolent in their orientation ...example in hand was the reference to one of the brands that ostensibly pays above the average wage to the farmers...a mere 2 dollars..Does the panel believe that this arrangement was going to significantly change the status quo...What are the facts...In the value chain of cocoa the price has always been determined by a part of the world that hasn't the slightest clue the enormity of the work at stake ...nor frankly do they care as long as they continue to benefit a great deal..Now let's take a pick into the biases of the contributors. When reference was made to Ghana , I really hoped that light was growing to be shed on the emergence of artisanal local chocolate manufactures...but what do we get...the conversation was deliberately overshadowed by discussions around child labour. Now the problem with ignorant and yet arrogant conception of western commentators on this topic is the sheer lack of understanding of the work ethos of other parts of the world. So westerners continue to believe in the delusional notion that western liberal interpretation of societal norms must be cardinal for the rest of a vast majority of earth's population. My maternal grandparents cultivated nearly 100acres of cocoa plantation in the 1930's 40's and 50's ...during that period crop yields from nursery to planting to maturity took upwards of 7yrs to perhaps 10yrs for cocoa trees to fully mature. Secondly many communities were agrarian..so parents and their children worked together for the prosperity of the family.My grandparents often commuted to the farmsteads that were some 2 or 3 miles away .. sometimes even further. The entire household will set off at about 3a.m . The maturing young members of the family will learn to farm by helping in the farmsteads..whiles suckling ones will be left in the care of a sibling to nurse...this was what characterised the nucleus family. My mother grew up to become an accomplished banker...while my maternal uncle became an acclaimed political scientist and journalist after his studies in Spain..It is unthinkable the my mother and uncle ever regarded their parents as brute child slave owners or master's of their own children. Now where this narrow argument falls flat and problematic is that the very some proponents of such absurdity are the same people who do not shy from exploiting farmers in this place for pure economy of scale..So in the scheme of the aforementioned who is running slave labour farmsteads...is it my grandparents or the foreigner who is entirely undertaking such enterprise in regard to benefitting from paying slave wages which we all must agree will never in a hundred years change the economic fortunes of these farmers.

Thank you!

Thank you for uploading this, I couldn't make it to the livestream. Hopefully, I get to come to one of your tasting sessions soon! Greetings from Vienna.

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Fresco do a tasting set. I reckon that would be awesome to try!

I can't stand Khoo. Seems like a ignorant slag

Oh great, something else I can be a snob about, craft chocolate 🙄🤣

I really appreciate that you put the most important information in the first 10 minutes.

Yummy 🤤🤤😋😋☺😍😘😚☺

What kind of chocolate is that

Best

Thank you very much. Clear and easy to follow. If I may ask, when you use the microwave / seeding method, you melt the buttons, then seed to lower the temp to (about) 31°. I thought the temp needed to be lowered to (about) 27° then raised to (about) 31°. Am I misunderstanding something? I'm practicing tempering to use with molds. Thank you again.

You might like to know I've discovered an amazing new chocolate "le Galaxie" and amazingly its available in vast quantities in lidl.

I have been subscribing for over six months and genuinely enjoy the chocolate and packaging.. but in my last delivery i got Soklet and the silver/gold lining was stuck to the chocolate and it had a white coating. Seema it wasn't tempered correctly!!

I had the time now to follow this video and do tasting. It was super interesting. I'm generally not a huge fan of mushroom in foods, but love the smell of fresh mushrooms sincs my childhood. The Naive chocolate with porcini mushroom was amazing. The 100% was also a very interesting experience. I really needed to taste it again, because my tongue was shocked the first time. :D Good job with this. I'm a bit sad I missed the Feitoria, sounded interesting. Oh, and I must agree, the Fossa was a great design. Really nice combination.