#chocotenango

Spicy love: Chef Ismael of @chocotenango added organic chile peppers to his 73% luxury craft chocolate on Dominican cacao, and I'm adding this warm and lovely chocolate bar to my February / Valentine's Day Chocolate Uplift craft chocolate subscription boxes, as I'm inspired by my visit with Chef at his efficient and artistic #chocotenango kitchen in DC last month! #DCBaltimoreJanuary2018 ❤ My pairing tips: try this chocolate on a rice cake with olive oil and salt, or sprinkle it on dinner as you would add a dash of pepper, for a zing of balanced heat! ❤ #aztecrevivalism #chocolateyvalentine #chocolatesubscriptionbox

Perfect day for heavenly hot chocolate, plus #chocotenango's bold, balanced, and delicious Zanzibar dark milk chocolate bar with nutmeg, sea salt, and chili, which is now available at #cocoaandco in Chicago! 🍂 Of course this bar - like all the bars I'm honored to represent - meets my 5 Ss: sustainable, slavery-free, soy-free, small-batch, and scrumptious! #chocolatefreedomproject #chillyinchicago (at Cocoa + Co.)

Sweet talk: what a treat to speak to students at my alma mater #harvardlawschool on alternative careers for lawyers, at a leadership conference organized by the Harvard Women's Law Association and Ms. JD! 🏛 My message to these high-achieving super-professional students: follow your passions and goals, not someone else's. And if your passion is BigLaw, have a back-up passion, because today only 19% of equity partners are women, and they are paid 80% of what the men receive. ⁉️ Entrepreneurship is an exciting alternative, and has been a meaningful and delicious one for me! It was fun and an honor to share war stories from my law firm days, and origin stories of my original chocolate tours business, to chat afterward with such wonderful and thoughtful students about what is on their minds, and to share #chocotenango chocolate bars which were enormously popular! 💜 #HarvardAutumn2017 (at Harvard Law School)

Reveal: #chocotenango's El Puro chocolate bar, made from Dominican cacao in Washington, DC, is the 4th bar in my September Chocolate Uplift craft chocolate subscription boxes! 💙 This award-winning bar has a silky texture and a sustainability ethos, as chocolatier and chocolate maker Ismael supports natural resource conservation in partnership with Ecologic Development Fund! 🌍 And, every Chocolate Uplift box supports #creerafrica, through a one-for-one give of a meal to formerly trafficked children who escaped from the bulk cacao farms in Côte d'Ivoire that supply industrial chocolate brands. 💜 Onward and upward! #upliftthroughchocolate #chocolatesubscriptionbox

Look what arrived: #chocotenango abundance! The pure dark chocolate 73% is my standout pick for its gentleness and accessibility, and my fabulous interns chose the cardamom 73% as their favorite! #chocolatebroker (at Chocolate Uplift)