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 maqui ingredientsobolo earl grey

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Obolo PeruObolo Peru backobolo gift frontobolo gift backobolo murta

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 in hot chocsirene with croissantsirene jam croissantsirene chabilsirene chabil backsirene chabil bar

sirene fleur de selvalerie and taylor

 

Violet Sky Chocolate

Made in South Bend, Indiana

$11

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maple and vanillam and vviolet sky m and v

 

Chocolatasm

Made on Cape Cod, Massachussetts

$8

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chocolatasm and obolo pinks

 

Bixby Chocolate

Made in Rockland, Maine

$10

bixby smoothie barsbixby matchabixby matcha backbixby matcha detailvalerie and kate

 

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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Repost NYTimes article: Everything You Don’t Know About Chocolate

Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Three beloved bean-to-bar brands I shared at my talk at the Northwest Chocolate Festival were highlighted in the New York Times this month: Dandelion Chocolate, Dick Taylor Chocolate, and Fruition Chocolate.

It’s all about love, and I love this recent New York Times article:

The beloved bar has come a long way in quality and complexity. Here’s a primer on how it’s made, and how to choose the best and most ethically produced. 

 

A snippet:

…bean-to-bar chocolate makers obsess over the character and ethical origins of their beans.

This is in marked contrast to mainstream industrial chocolate, in which the beans are a commodity product, bought in bulk for price, not quality.

The best bean-to-bar chocolate makers (also called craft or micro chocolate makers) choose beans the way chefs choose tomatoes — obsessively, often visiting the farms where the beans are grown. They roast and grind the beans themselves before making them into chocolate bars.

The pastry chef and author David Lebovitz, who wrote “The Great Book of Chocolate,” compares bean-to-bar chocolate to natural wine. “It’s exciting and alive in a way that even really great regular chocolate isn’t,” he said. “It can surprise you.”

 

Journalist Melissa Clark also notes that her favorite craft chocolate bars include Dandelion Chocolate, Dick Taylor Chocolate, Fruition Chocolate, and Taza Chocolate, four of the brands I am honored to represent!

Here’s to brands that meet my 5 S’s:

  • slavery-free
  • soy-free and lecithin-free
  • sustainable
  • small-batch and
  • scrumptious!
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Beloved Taza Chocolate was also a favorite in the New York Times, and on a route of my Boston Chocolate Walking Tours back in the old chocolate tour days.

Onward and upward!

Your friend in chocolate,

Valerie

with leah and paul at dandelion
With Leah Hammerman and Paul Primozich of Dandelion Chocolate
with dahlia and bryan
With Dahlia Rissman Graham and Bryan Graham of Fruition Chocolate

 

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With Dustin Taylor and Adam Dick of Dick Taylor Chocolate

Valerie Beck

Craft Chocolate Brokering, Consulting, Distribution

http://www.chocolateuplift.com

chocolateuplift@gmail.com

Instagram @chocolateuplift