& Present *** It’s Our Final Chocolate Offer EVER!!! *** Order by Midnight on Nov. 30th! Amano Chocolate Four Bar Collection IMPORTANT NOTE: Please email us at support@chocolateconnoisseurmag.com if you’re interested in international shipping. The Chocolate Connoisseur Chocolate Shop Closes Its Doors for Good on December 1st, with a True Craft Chocolate Legend, Amano Chocolate! Are you ready to taste some of the greatest chocolate the bean-to-bar world has to offer? I hope so, because here for our OCT-NOV chocolate offer (our final offer ever!) we’re sending the one and onl ..read more

In Focus: Amano Chocolate by Eric Battersby It’s definitely been a minute since we last brought you a brand new In Focus Feature, but here, with a much more hopeful holiday season on the very near horizon, we’re back to take you on a wonderful new chocolate journey. This time you’ll travel from New Mexico to Hawaii… from Washington to Madagascar… from Papa New Guinea to Peru, as you join Art Pollard of Amano Chocolate on his own personal journey from a science-loving youngster in Los Alamos, New Mexico, to an elite chocolate maker in Salt Lake City, Utah. Art has a storytelling knack of h ..read more

& Present Xocolatl Autumn Trio Ultra IMPORTANT NOTE: Please email us at support@chocolateconnoisseurmag.com if you’re interested in international shipping. Introducing Xocolatl, a small batch Atlanta chocolate maker with a big heart The wife/husband chocolate team behind Xocolatl, Elaine Read and Matt Weyandt, make their first appearance here at Chocolate Connoisseur with this super-tempting “Welcome to Fall” chocolate offer — the Autumn Trio Utra. Ready for some cooler weather? Xocolatl’s stunning chocolate bar trio highlights a seasonal shift with flavors of coffee, sea salt, and ..read more

BIG CHOCOLATE’S UGLY SECRET by Eric Battersby According to the most recent research (courtesy of Tulane University), as of 2014, approximately 6 million children live in agricultural households in Ghana and the Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire). Of those 6 million children, roughly 2.6 million work in the cocoa fields. Children working a small amount is one thing, but as chocolate maker and slavery-fighter Tony’s Chocolonely states – “A child working safely on his parents’ farm before or after school is not an issue (e.g. gathering cocoa pods from the ground). In fact, he or she helps the fami ..read more

& Present Tabal Chocolate Four Bar Collection IMPORTANT NOTE: Please email us at support@chocolateconnoisseurmag.com if you’re interested in international shipping. “Single Origin Chocolate with Intention,” Tabal Chocolate Brings Its Brand New Packaging to the Chocolate Shop! As we close out our chocolate offers for the summer no-shipping season, we happily welcome Tabal Chocolate back to the CC Chocolate Shop for a delicious encore. Tabal recently reached out to us to help them promote their brand new packaging, so it’s the perfect time to reunite and help showcase their gorgeou ..read more

& Present Fresco Chocolate’s Deluxe Collection IMPORTANT NOTE: Please email us at support@chocolateconnoisseurmag.com if you’re interested in international shipping. Fresco Brings Its Award-Winning Lineup to Chocolate Connoisseur This month we kick off Spring by happily welcoming our old friends at Fresco Chocolate back to Chocolate Connoisseur. We’re also sticking to the Washington state chocolate scene for another month, as Fresco and K’ul are basically neighbors — and, as we often see in the chocolate world, good friends as well. Chocolate Connoisseur Staff Writer Rene Zimbelm ..read more

IN Focus: K’ul Chocolate by Eric Battersby Here in early 2021 we’re revisiting an old friend, but with a new name and a new look to boot. Welcome to K’ul Chocolate, the passion project of Paul Newman and his wife Ariana Lee-Newman (Ari if you will). We covered Paul and Ari back in 2017 when they were BIJA Chocolate, but a refining of their chocolate mission resulted in some important, positive changes that led to the re-branding. 2017, however, is really only a recent part of the timeline for K’ul, as their story actually began twenty years ago, in the jungles of Honduras, and in remo ..read more

& Present K’ul Chocolate Six Bar Collection IMPORTANT NOTE: Please email us at support@chocolateconnoisseurmag.com if you’re interested in international shipping. A Cool Six Pack from K’ul Chocolate If K’ul Chocolate looks familiar to you, but you just can’t quite place exactly why, then perhaps the word BIJA rings a bell… This month we’re re-introducing chocolate makers Paul Newman and Ari Lee-Newman from the chocolate Mecca known as Washington state, and their recently re-branded BIJA to K’ul, chocolate company. Yes, it’s a new name, but it’s the same inspirational mission as P ..read more

& Present Endorfin Foods Six Bar Sampler IMPORTANT NOTE: Please email us at support@chocolateconnoisseurmag.com if you’re interested in international shipping. Six of Endorfin’s Finest… It’s a long overdue chocolate partnership here at the end of 2020, as we’re overjoyed to bring you some incredible chocolate from the one and only Endorfin Foods, created by Brian Wallace. This sampler pack features six full size versions of Endorfin’s best selling, award-winning chocolate bars: Coconut Cream, Golden Mylk, Turkish Coffee, Absinthe, Ginger & Rose, and Dark & Salty. Endorfin ..read more

& Present Elements Truffles Devi Gift Box IMPORTANT NOTE: Please email us at support@chocolateconnoisseurmag.com if you’re interested in international shipping. Five Incredible Bars Await You… We’re very excited to celebrate the return of Elements Truffles to our Chocolate Shop, featuring five outstanding bars from Wall Street trader turned chocolate guru, Alak Vasa. If you don’t yet know the story behind Elements, you can read our Elements Truffles In Focus Feature back in the May ’17 issue, where we interview Alak, introduce Ayurveda, and more… For now, however, let’s di ..read more