Podcast #50. Join the Chocolate Revolution!

In preparation for this podcast I spent 6 days in the CocoaTown booth at the 2023 Salon du Chocolat in Paris talking chocolate, literally to thousands of people.  I sold our Village Chocolates bars, I sold chocolates from my store in Cordes sur Ciel, and for this podcast I interviewed six leaders in the bean-to-bar business.  These include:  

• Mrs. Andal Balu of CocoaTown, a pioneer in adapting the Indian wet grinder to small volume chocolate making;  
• Mr. Maxime Elegbede, a banker turned chocolatier who buys beans from Benin cocoa growers and turns them into beautifully packaged and luscious tasting chocolate bars; 
• Mr. Ndeh Dieudonné, the Managing Director of SOCTRACAO, a Cameroonian company established to help men and women get into the chocolate making business; 
• Mr. Neil Kelsall,  the Director of Marketing for Madagascar Chocolate;  
• Chef Michael Poole of Hot Chocolat, who makes custom chocolates as corporate gifts; 
• and finally Mr. Alain D’Aboville, author of Cacao Source, a book about the bean-to-bar movement

As always, we are looking to help African cocoa farmers become African chocolate makers.  Join the revolution!

1.   Go to www.projecthopeandfairness.org and click on the Donate button.     -OR- 

2.  Send a check to: Donations, PH&F, 1298 Warren Road, Cambria, CA 93428. 

3.  TO LISTEN TO PODCAST—> https://www.buzzsprout.com/1057903/13912637

Write to me at tom@projecthopeandfairness.org

To learn more, visit www.projecthopeandfairness.org