To learn more about the Yaletown shop Chocoatl and pairing beverages and other foods with chocolate, click here for a previous entry.
The most fascinating gadget I saw at the recent IACP convention in Seattle was a device used to make chocolate from ground-up cocoa beans. This is meant to be a home-based system, invented by John Nanci of Yoncalla, Oregon. Also known as ‘Alchemist John’, he’s a chemist who decided to try making his own chocolate from cocoa beans after tasting some that 
was hand-made by a woman in Oaxaca, Mexico. If you want to learn more about John’s starter kits, visit his Chocolate Alchemy website.
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It was good meeting you at the conference.
Thank you for my “15 minutes” of fame.
Hopefully this is the start of a whole new crop of artisan chocolatiers.
I think you’d be surprised – you might even start to help some of the people back where they grow the stuff!