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Chocolate: From the Tropics to Your Table
Fort Mason Center | Included with Taste Pavilions Ticket: $45 - 65 | Saturday, August 30; 11am – 3pm; 5pm – 9pm | Sunday, August 31; 11am – 3pm; 5pm – 9pm
Everyone is familiar with the singular pleasure of chocolate, but few of us appreciate the complicated journey behind its production. Cacao only grows in the tropics but is almost exclusively processed into chocolate in Europe and the U.S. Some of America’s best and most progressive artisanal chocolate makers were on hand at the Chocolate Pavilion to serve tastes of their chocolates and explain their relationships with Theobroma Cacao and its growers. The opportunity to taste cacao’s terroir in a carefully minted bar of chocolate and talk face-to-face with some of the country’s most innovative chocolate makers was a revelation to chocolate novices and lovers alike.
Featured chocolate-makers:
- Art Pollard from Amano Chocolate, Orem, UT
- Steve DeVries from DeVries Chocolate, Denver, CO
- Alan McClure from Patric Chocolate, Columbia, MO
- Alex Whitmore from Taza Chocolate, Somerville, MA
- Shawn Askinosie from Askinosie Chocolate, Springfield, MO
Curator: David Salowich & Seneca Klassen, Co-Owners of Bittersweet Cafe
Designer: Aidlin Darling Design
In-Kind Supporters: Mariani Nut Company Inc., Rode Bros. Fine Wood Flooring