For the love of chocolate… My name is Kelley, and I’m a Level 2 Certified Chocolate Taster through the International Institute of Chocolate and Cacao Tasting. This blog is based on my simple and forever love of bean to bar chocolate. This love took me to my very first chocolate festival–the Northwest Chocolate Festival. It’s the biggest chocolate festival in the USA, and was so much fun! I met the actual chocolate makers of some of my favorite chocolate brands, and met the makers of some of my new favorites! In this blog, I’ll review each of the chocolate bars I brought back from the festival. Hopefully, this blog helps people who are new to bean to bar chocolate choose bars they’ll love to eat and share.
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The start of it
I woke up today and couldn’t wait to eat more of this chocolate bar. Throughout the photo shoot over the last few days (“photo shoot” is too strong–just remember I’m learning), I added “life and texture” to the photo by adding nibble marks to the bar. The nibbles got bigger and bigger. As I nibbled, …