Shop: #stayhomewithchocolate

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Hello!

I hope you are well!

Normally I sell craft chocolate wholesale to stores, and lately I have also been asked to sell it direct to you because some stores have had to close — only temporarily we hope — due to the current virus situation. To help our dear chocolate makers, cacao growers, and other small businesses, as part of the #stayhomewithchocolate initiative launched by our community, and to help you get the best chocolate from around the world without leaving home, here you go!

Until or unless I get a shopify page or the like set up, you can order as follows:

  • Choose your chocolate bars from below my signature, and pay via my Paypal link.
  • Prices are as listed, or choose 4 bars for $50, or 10 for $100.
  • Free shipping at $50+.
  • Philanthropy partner tbd.
  • You can also email me or send me a Zelle payment at chocolateuplift@gmail.com, or
  • send me a message on Instagram @chocolateuplift.
  • Let me know your mailing address, or the mailing address of your gift recipient and any note for a gift card, and I look forward to sending your chocolate!

All of the chocolate I represent is slavery-free, soy-free and lecithin-free, sustainable, small-batch, and scrumptious!

Also as part of this initiative, I’ll be doing a fun Instagram Live presentation, which will be posted to YouTube, on *Chocolate For Breakfast: Surprising Health Benefits and How-Tos,* Wednesday, March 25, 2020, at 11:00 am central time. Details to come here and wherever #stayhomewithchocolate is used! : )

Thank you, keep eating real chocolate, and I wish and send you courage and compassion!

Your friend in chocolate,

Valerie

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Valerie Beck

Founder/CEO Chocolate Uplift

Craft Chocolate Brokering, Consulting, Distribution

http://www.chocolateuplift.com

chocolateuplift@gmail.com

IG: @chocolateuplift

 

Welcome to the Chocolate Uplift #stayhomewithchocolate Shop!

Obolo Chocolate

Made in Chile

$11

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obolo merken murtaobolo muna ricavalerie with mark and brayan

 

Belu Cacao

Made in El Salvador

$6 full-size

$3 half-size

$1 mini

$16 cocoa almond butter

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Cacao and sugar — all you need!
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The ingredients are grown in El Salvador, and the chocolate is made in El Salvador.

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Sirene Chocolate

Made in Canada

$10

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sirene fleur de selvalerie and taylor

 

Violet Sky Chocolate

Made in South Bend, Indiana

$11

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Chocolatasm

Made on Cape Cod, Massachussetts

$8

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chocolatasm and obolo pinks

 

Bixby Chocolate

Made in Rockland, Maine

$10

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Raaka Chocolate

Made in Brooklyn

$6

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You can order as follows:

  • Choose your chocolate bars, and pay via my Paypal link.
  • Prices are as listed, or choose 4 bars for $50, or 10 for $100.
  • Free shipping at $50+.
  • Philanthropy partner tbd.
  • You can also email me or send me a Zelle payment at chocolateuplift@gmail.com, or
  • send me a message on Instagram @chocolateuplift.
  • Let me know your mailing address, or the mailing address of your gift recipient and any note for a gift card, and I look forward to sending your chocolate!

All of the chocolate I represent is slavery-free, soy-free and lecithin-free, sustainable, small-batch, and scrumptious!

Thank you!

Onward and upward!

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Chocolate Scouting at Dose Market

Posted on by valeriebeck

Chocolate Scouting at Dose Market

Let there be balloons: festive Dose Market at the Chicago Cultural Center
Let there be balloons: festive Dose Market at the Chicago Cultural Center

Picture chocolate, pastry, fashion, jewelry, and more, under one roof.

Picture that roof over my favorite building in Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Center (which was the main branch of the Chicago Public Library when I was a little girl).

That was the scene for the April edition of Dose Market, a dynamic marketplace that showcases chefs, designers, and makers of all stripes. The market was co-sponsored in April 2015 by the Lake FX conference for artists and entrepreneurs, which added an extra touch of excitement.

At Dose Market: salted chocolate cranberry orange toffee by Terry's Toffee, a longtime favorite
At Dose Market: salted chocolate cranberry orange toffee by Terry’s Toffee, a longtime favorite

Add the fact that among the makers showcased were longtime chocolate friends, and soon-to-be-made chocolate friends, and of course I attended. I attended, I chocolate scouted, and I enjoyed.

What exactly is chocolate scouting? That’s my term for exploring the world and finding delicious chocolate and pastry. It’s something I’ve always done: on any trip to a new city, even as a child, I always wanted to find the best chocolate. That hasn’t changed, and I chocolate scout where I live and where I travel, for business and for pleasure.

Dose Market at the Chicago Cultural Center featured some exquisite and creative chocolate and pastry offerings from old friends…

Rare Bird Preserves, including chocolate blueberry
Rare Bird Preserves, including chocolate blueberry, owned by dear Elizabeth Madden, a French Pastry School grad
With dear Terry of Terry's Toffee
With dear Terry Opalek of Terry’s Toffee

And from new friends…

Deeply impressive chocolate raspberry tart and macarons by newcomer Verzenay Patisserie, a delightful husband-and-wife team
Deeply impressive chocolate raspberry tart and macarons by newcomer Verzenay Patisserie, owned by delightful husband-and-wife team Aqeel and Arshiya Farheen. Arshiya is the chef, and she graduated from Ferrandi culinary school in Paris.
Gingerbread cookies year round from Dough Dough Bird
Gingerbread cookies year round from delicious Dough Dough Bird, owned by new friend Julie Goding, a French Pastry School grad
Intriguing mole bread by Zapps Grains, with cacao and chipotle
Intriguing low-glycemic mole bread with cacao and chipotle by Zapp’s Dancing Grains, 

I look forward to chocolate scouting at the next Dose Market!

Sweet home Chicago
Sweet home Chicago

Your friend in chocolate,

Valerie

Valerie Beck

Chocolate Expert, Speaker, Consultant

www.valeriebeckchocolateuplift.com

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