The world of craft chocolate is an artisan movement centralized on a back-to-the-basics approach to chocolate making. Chocolate made by craft chocolatiers is simple, usually including just cocoa liquor and sugar. Coffee went through a similar renaissance starting in the late 1980s and 90s focused on ethical and quality concerns.
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Thoughts and Tastes from Castronovo Chocolate in Stuart, FL
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Digging deeper into coffee and cocoa, the specialty markets and how their cost structures attribute to their price tags. Transparency is the heart and the root as well as complete dedication to the beans and where they come from!
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Direct Trade is a highly variable system devised by each company to focus on their particular concerns, but almost always these programs include long-term partnerships with their farms, quality control and paying well over the Fair Trade minimum price ($500 + PNYSE).
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