How to Taste Chocolate (video)

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by Valerie Beck, chocolate expert, founder of the original nationwide chocolate tours, and sweet speaker

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Light check during taping of a video on how to taste chocolate. Collecting my thoughts, or savoring chocolate mindfully?

Video on how to taste chocolate

I’ve been a chocolate maniac since the age of 4, when I announced to my mother and my kindergarten teacher that I would no longer be drinking milk unless it was chocolate milk!

It wasn’t until I started eating chocolate mindfully though, that I gained a deeper appreciation of chocolate’s nuances. Transitioning to top quality two-ingredient chocolate also helped!

Click for a short video I made as part of advising services for the Haitian Chocolate Project, on how to taste chocolate for enhanced enjoyment.

Hint: the video works even better if you have craft chocolate while watching, as I did from Violet Sky Chocolate made with Haiti cacao, to play along!

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Violet Sky Chocolate - in the video I'm tasting the swoon-worthy Haiti

Thank you, and here’s to mindful enjoyment, at any age, of nature’s perfect superfood-based glory: chocolate!

Your friend in chocolate,
Valerie

Valerie Beck
CEO/Founder Chocolate Uplift
Chocolate Consultant and Broker, Sweet Speaker
www.valeriebeckchocolateuplift.com
http://www.chocolateuplift.com
chocolateuplift@gmail.com
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Haiti is Here

Posted on by valeriebeck

by Valerie Beck, chocolate consultant

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Grown in Haiti: Haitian Chocolate Project kickstarter launches Thursday 1/28

Update – click for the kickstarter campaign:

https:// http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/272592294/the-haitian-chocolate-project-bar-one

What would you say to delicious bean-to-bar chocolate made from gentle cacao grown on the lush yet historically impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti, where cacao farmers are working to raise their families and communities out of poverty?

Fund the new Haitian Chocolate Project kickstarter campaign, launching Thursday, January 28, 2016, and you’re funding new fermentation boxes to make this good cacao better, and to further farmers’ abilities to lift their families and communities out of poverty by getting their cacao to the US market.

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Sensational San Francisco, where I’ll lead a custom chocolate adventure for top funders

Kickstarter rewards include Bisou Chocolate made with these gentle Haitian cocoa beans, and also my new chocolate tasting video, and a trip through San Francisco’s top chocolate shops, kitchens, and bakeries led by yours truly with the Haitian Chocolate Project founders.

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Beautiful Bisou Chocolate, making new chocolate bars from Haitian cacao for you

I’m thrilled to be an advisor to this project, and the kickstarter link is coming soon!

Update – here’s the link:

https:// http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/272592294/the-haitian-chocolate-project-bar-one

Delicious thanks!

Your friend in chocolate,
Valerie

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In San Francisco, where I sampled our first batch of lovely Haitian cacao.  Onward and upward!

Valerie Beck
CEO/Founder Chocolate Uplift
www.valeriebeckchocolateuplift.com
www.chocolateuplift.com
social media @chocolateuplift