Slow Food Chicago: Ecuadorian Chocolate

Articles

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  Slow Food Nation

  When Carlo Petrini spoke out against the opening of a McDonald’s restaurant in his native Rome, he couldn’t have guessed that he’d be heard around the world.

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  Never Dull

  When someone gets fired from a French kitchen, the chef de cuisine says simply, “Take your knives.” To a chef, the knife is like an extra appendage, and its dismissal cuts deeper than…

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  Valerie x Commune Design Chocolates

  Little throws the Dwell office into a tizzy of afternoon consumption than some toothsome confection (Full disclosure: Baked goods have a similar effect). Imagine then how popular I became when my…

Products

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  Fleurir Chocolates

  Robert Ludlow is the mad genius behind Fleurir Chocolates- not mad as in angry, but mad as in wildly creative and remarkably disorganized. After graduating valedictorian with Le Grand Diplome…

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  Mast Brothers Chocolate

  Mast Brothers roast their own cacao beans, and create amazing, intense, small batch, hand made, highly crafted chocolate. You can get an assortment of ten chocolates online, for the oh so serious…

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  Marcie Blaine Chocolates

  Chef Marcie Blaine Turney looks to Lancaster county for organic cream and butter, and nearby farms for seasonal produce, herbs and honey. Her chocolates are inspired by the flavors of her…