Choco Zone Podcast: Recent Episodes
Choco Zone Podcast
Official channel of Choco Zone Podcast. Stories, experiences, lifes and loves for chocolate production with some of the best artisan chocolate makers of the world.
Cocoa for Africa has been a great opportunity and it is still a great one in different african nations. Sure, often cocoa is worked from big, big companies that don' t give future or potentiality for a best future to the farmers. Bean to bar chocolate is a great opportunity for farmers and in Uganda, Jeff has created a good chocolate company, a great opportunity for local farmers to export with more margin the cocoa and a very good opportunity also for other chocolate crafters that can see directly the eyes of the cocoa suppliers. This is one of the best episode of Choco Zone with more informations about the magic world of the "bean to bar".
Vaicacao, from El Salvador to Sardinia.
The power of cocoa in this episode is the main actor for Vaicacao, a growing company of Sardinia that make bean to bar starting from the family plantanation near San Salvador. From the beginning, where cocoa was the power in the sales, to nibs and, finally, arriving to chocolate bars taking always care about the farmers, sostenibility and quality of the final product. Enjoy this episode with Elisa and Juan Rafael and take inspiration the next time you will go to buy chocolate bar thinking that no all chocolate is the same. Behind crafter makers, you couls have passion, story, love and quality.
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Choco Zone Podcast. Episode 10. From Maiorca Island, one bean to bar chocolate maker that started into the Mediterranean Sea with chocolate production. From Nicaragua, where the main quantity of cocoa arrives to Spain bringing a lot of classic and innovation for the spanish market of chocolate that, also here, starts to understand that chocolate is created from a fruit and the artisan can give a new flavour to a product that it is not only a sweet food.
Music: Kevin Macelod, m00n.cloud (outro)
One of the first chocolate makers in the house of chocolatiers. We talk with Aurelien, founder of the La Baleine a Cabosse, about the movment of bean to bar chocolate makers in France, where chocolate is a part of the culture but the creation of chocolate from cocoa beans is not so common till the arrival of an important new assosation "bean to bar France".
Music: Kevin Macelod, m00n.cloud (outro)
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Choco Zone Postcast. Episode 8: Jack Steijn and Chocoa!
In this episode we meet the founder of the most famous festival dedicated to chocolate crafters in Europe and one of the most important witness of the development of this market in the old continent. A great episode with someone that has a background in the world of cocoa, chocolate and that knows the international bean to bar movment since the beginning and has given an important help to development of this market in Europe
Music: Kevin Macelod, m00n.cloud (outro)
Ronald Utz tell us his new life with bean to bar chocolate.
In this episode we leave Us to jump in the heart of Europe, Germany where there is Ronald that switch his life when he met the potentiality of ice cream and food made with passion, looking for high quality and working with love for it
Choco Zone Postcast. Episode 5: Making "bean to bar" chocolate with classic machines and new technologies...
In this episode we meet a very famous american brand for bean to bar chocolate of Usa. Ritual Chocolate is a brand that use historical machines and top technologies machines to create the production. With Robbie Stout, co-founder of Ritual Chocolate we follow the way thst bring him to be one of the most exiting "ritual" brand of artisan chocolate.
Music: Kevin Macelod, m00n.cloud (outro)
Episode 4: Only dark bean to bar!
In this episode we meet a chocolate maker from California that is making only dark chocolate to expand totally the flavour of the origin of cocoa. Seems strange this but, after this episode, you could understand that there is a great ideal behind this way to make bean to bar.
In this episode we meet a chocolate maker from Texas that change his life to make chocolate. Started from his home few years ago and now is a great and important chocolate maker. He gives suggestions and tell the experience and some tricks about this amazing job.
Music: Kevin Macelod, m00n.cloud (outro)
Choco Zone Postcast. Episode 2: a new market
In this episode we cover for the first time in our Podcast the world of "edibles", a market in exponential growth in the USA with incredible developments and potential that go beyond the popularity of chocolate. Moises, our host has an experience of "from tree to bar", "bean to bar", established chocolatier and now introduces us to this new world of CBD
Here we are at the first episode of the second series of Choco Zone. Directly from the US capital, Washington, the cradle of the new movement that is changing the world of chocolate, we meet the two founders of Arcay Chocolates. The story of how chocolate changed the life of a teacher and a lawyer. One of the many beautiful stories of chocolatiers.
This episode is the last of the first serie of Choco Zone Podcast. It is to see till the end because it is full of surprise. We are with one of the first bean to bar crafter of Us, Cherley Wheelock, the founder of Woodblock Chocolate from Portland. He is a champion of the chocolate crafters and we are really proud to close this first serie with a guest like him. We go inside the differences between artisanal bean to bar chocolate makers and the commercial one and we try to explain the problems and satisfactions that this job could give to anyone that love the creation of chocolate from the cocoa beans. We will be back soon? In the while, see it till the end and maybe you could understand more about chocolate, artisans, cocoa farmers and technology for bean to bar production.
Music: Kevin Macelod, m00n.cloud (outro)
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n this episode we got special story around the world of chocolate. We are in Queensland, Australia , and we talk about with the Chris, the founder of Charley's Chocolate Factory . This companh is not only a "bean to bar" factory but is an amazing place where tourists arrive to see the cocoa trees. Yes, Chris is a "from tree to bar" chocolate maker of Australia but we don t want to say more and it is time to see and enjoy this great episode.
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Bean to bar is all over the world and we think that Choco Zone has just showed it. But this is not enough so that there are regions in the world where the cocoa is present in a massive way but the chocolate is quite not existing. One of this is Africa and here we are meeting our guest that has started to make "bean to bar" and that is talking to us the problems and the solutions that has found to improve the quality of chocolate also in these regions. We are with Femi of Loshes Chocolate that is doing a great job in Nigeria and it could be a target for a lot of new african chocolate makers that are starting with the magic job of produce the chocolate
In this episode we are in Switzerland, the house of chocolate where, intrue, it is not so easy find many chocolatiers that make chocolate from the cocoa beans. It is an interesting speech about this with a real "bean to bar" chocolate maker Kay Kausen that explain the difficulties to teach and explain to the market the difference of taste that only a craft chocolate maker could offer
Music: Kevin Macelod, m00n.cloud (outro)
Our Blog: http://boscolo.it/
In this episode we are in Switzerland, the house of chocolate where, intrue, it is not so easy find many chocolatiers that make chocolate from the cocoa beans. It is an interesting speech about this with a real "bean to bar" chocolate maker Kay Kausen that explain the difficulties to teach and explain to the market the difference of taste that only a craft chocolate maker could offer.
Music: Kevin Macelod, m00n.cloud (outro)
Our Blog: http://boscolo.it/
We are still in Uk, at York, an important city for chocolate where we meet Sophie Jewett that make, show and teach the bean to bar chocolate production. With her we talk about what the consumers could know about craft chocolate and the important of artisans for farmers. York Cocoa House has been also very important for International Chocolate Awards in these years and, surely, we talk also about this important organization
Music: Kevin Macelod, m00n.cloud (outro)
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We are back in Europe, in the United Kingdom, where we meet Adrian Ling, a guru of vegan and a great chocolate maker that knows very well the world market and that can help us to know better some matters that normally are difficult to see and understand.
Music: Kevin Macelod, m00n.cloud (outro)
Our Blog: http://boscolo.it/
The episode 23 is in Vietnam, a country in which cocoa presence has had mixed fortunes. Today, cocoa and chocolate makers are very present and even the production of artisan chocolate is an opportunity for growt for farmers and producers. We meet Marc Van Borren, who moved from Belgium to Saigon where he runs Belvie Chocolate.
Music: Kevin Macelod, m00n.cloud (outro)
Our Blog: http://boscolo.it/
Last stop in Indonesia for this edition of Choco Zone Podcast. This time we are in the most famous place for tourism that Indonesia could offer: Bali. And also in this magic place we have a "bean to bar" craft chocolate factory that offers quality, show the way and teach to the big quantity of tourists and local people how the chocolate is made. We meed Toby Garritt, founder of Pod Chocolate and also here we show the great opportunity that craft chocolate can give to local cocoa farmers.
Music: Kevin Macelod, m00n.cloud (outro)
Our Blog: http://boscolo.it/
We are still in Indonesia but this time we are in Sumatra. The guest of this episode is Priscilla, one of the first "from tree to bar" of this large country. We go inside the opportunity that making fine chocolate could give to the farmers, thanks to the creation of a new brand of chocolate. The L'ile chocolate from Padang is just in a good number of places in Indonesia but it is also going abroad in Europe and Middle East.
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Our Blog: http://boscolo.it/
For the 20 th episode of Choco Zone Podcast, we bring you in Indonesia. Here we are in the biggest country of cocoa out of Africa but without big producers of fine chocolate till the arrival of a pioneer, Thierry, founder of Monggo Chocolate, our guest. With him, quite in his garden with the frogs, we talk about this new age that arrived in this amazing country and how he is working to explain the taste of fine chocolate to the indonesian people.
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Our Blog: http://boscolo.it/
A special guest for the Easter's week. Here we are with Todd Masonis, founder of one of the most important "bean to bar" craft chocolate. We speak about past, present and future of Dandelion Chocolate and, sure, also about the "bean to bar" world chocolate community.
Music: Kevin Macelod, m00n.cloud (outro)
Our Blog: http://boscolo.it/
Here we are at the episode number 18. We are in Antigua with Fernando Arias, owner of Fernando Kaffee. He makes chocolate only from cocoa beans of Guatemala and he created a special link with the farmers. We talk about differences between cocoa of Africa and cocoa of America. We go inside the market of bean to bar with a witness of this movment that is growing everywhere.
Music: Kevin Macelod, m00n.cloud (outro)
Our Blog: http://boscolo.it/
Another episode of Choco Zone Podcast and this time we have a "from tree to bar" chocolate maker from Mexico . The name of our guest is Alejandro Campos, Director of Chocolates Wolter, another important chocolate that works with some european
3 stars Michelin restaurants and that it is also a winner of a long number of chocolate and cocoa Awards. We talk about production of chocolate from the beans, cocoa trees, criollo and a new age of chocolate in Mexico and how an important brand like this can help the farmers community to grove, increase quality of their life and improve the production of Criollo.
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In this episode we are in Lille, France, one of the most important nation of chocolate. Our guest is one of the most growing chocolate maker of Europe, Antoine Maschi, co-founder of Chocolat Encuentro. A chocolate maker that starts the production from cocoa beans is not so popular here also if France is has one nation with of the big of consumers of chocolate. Maybe the secret is this: make own chocolate directly from the fruit of cocoa. The secret of any bean to bar chocolate crafter.
Music: Kevin Macelod, m00n.cloud (outro)
Also in this episode, we have a very famous chocolate that has won an incredible number of awards in the last years. We are in Peru with Humberto Samir Giha, co-owner of Cacaosuyo one of the best chocolate of the world. We talk about the cocoa beans and how it is important the cocoa for a chocolate crafter. Relationship, control and development with farmers is one of the secret for this amazing brand.
In this episode we are back in Europe where we have a special guest from Germany, Patrick Walter, founder of Choco del Sol. He is one of the first "bean to bar" chocolate maker of Europe and we talk about the history of the last ten years of the crafter chocolate movment and what the future of bean to bar needs.
Here we are with a new episode of our podcast. We are in Costarica where we meet Juan Pablo Buchert that is one of the most famous bean to bar chocolate maker of the Central America. He borned like cocoa maker so that his cocoa, Nahua, is very famous in the world and then he grow also like b2b maker. We talk about farmers, cocoa, fermentation, bean to bar production and a lot of other things about our magic world of chocolate.
Let's go with the episode 12 of Choco Zone Podcast. This time we bring you in Portugal and we talk with Pedro about one new amazing place in which quality is the master everywhere.
Music: Kevin Macelod, m00n.cloud (outro)
Our Blog: http://boscolo.it/
Here we are with the episode number 11. The world of "bean to bar" has had different generations. The first group of pioneer was without not so many knowledge on this new production and they had to do experiments, trials and tests before to understand the solutions to make a great chocolate. Now the new generations could find solutions everywhere but in the beginning was not so easy. Here we have Antonino Allegra from Cape Town that is one chocolate maker of the first generation and, after more than 10 years, is arrived to make that can tens of tonn each year. The power of chocolate crafters.
Here we are with a new episode of Choco Zone Podcast. This time, we bring you in Canada, where the bean to bar chocolate arrived soon thanks to the proximity of the big Us movement. In British Columbia, wIth Glen Davies, we meet Wild Mountain Chocolate.
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Till now, in Choco Zone Podcast we met chocolatiers, chocolate makers, director of chocolate schools and important figures of the world of chocolate. Here, we have Eugenio Guarducci that is the founder of Eurochocolate, the most important event of Italy and one of the most important of Europe for chocolate festivals. He makes chocolate too and he is able to bring in Perugia, each year, more than one million of people in only 2 weeks.
In the world wide web , there are new figures such as web journalists or influencers. Also the chocolate has this professional figures and here we have one of the most famous, "The chocolate journalist", Sharon Terenzi who tells us about the world of chocolate.
Music: Kevin Macelod, m00n.cloud (outro)
Our Blog: http://boscolo.it/
New year, new things and Choco Zone is back with a new story about a new kind of chocolate. Yes, the guest of this episode is the GM of Al Nassma Chocolate that makes camel milk chocolate in Eau.
Music: Kevin Macelod, m00n.cloud (outro)
Our Blog: http://boscolo.it/
A big Christmas present for the follower of Choco Zone Podcast. Here we are with a special guest like Martin Christy, founder of the Academy of International Chocolate Awards.
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Here we are with the fourth episode of Choco Zone Podcast. We are in Sydney with Jessica and we talk about australian culture of chocolate and the differences between industrial chocolate and crafter chocolate. Also in this episode, you could see how is important to know what is behind one of more loved food.
Music: Kevin Macelod, m00n.cloud (outro)
Our Blog: http://boscolo.it/
Here we are with the fourth episode of Choco Zone Podcast. We are in Sydney with Jessica and we talk about australian culture of chocolate and the differences between industrial chocolate and crafter chocolate. Also in this episode, you could see how is important to know what is behind one of more loved food.
Music: Kevin Macelod, m00n.cloud (outro)
Also this Thursday we r back with the third episode of our podcast dedicated to the world of chocolate. We fly to Australia and reach the far Salomon Islands. Here we meet Brian, who is in charge of fermentation and export of local cocoa beans. You better understand what lies behind the world of artisan chocolate and how much, thanks to it, the cocoa farmers can try to improve their economic status and hope for a better future. What Brian tells us in this episode is what can happen anywhere in the cocoa world and the development and growth of artisanal "chocolate makers" helps these farmers in any cocoa growing area. Enjoy and good Choco Zone!
Music: Kevin Macelod, m00n.cloud (outro)
Our Blog: http://boscolo.it/
For episode 2 of Choco Zone Podcast, we go to the magic city of Las Vegas where we meet the great chocolatier Jean-Marie Auboine. We talk about differences between american and european chocolate, industrial and artisanal production, future of the chocolate in the global market.
Music: Kevin Macelod, m00n.cloud (outro)
Our Blog: http://boscolo.it/
This is the presentation before to start with Choco Zone Podcast. Umberto Boscolo and Giuseppe Di Chiano tell their history at the side of chocolate makers during the last twenty years. They explain how the market changed and how the market is now. This episode is the first one before to meet in the next episodes other chocolate makers, tellers and opinion leaders of this amazing world of chocolate. Each thursday since now, you could find a new episode of Choco Zone Podcast.
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Our Blog: http://boscolo.it/