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We feature ethically-sourced chocolate makers and chocolatiers around the world! Join the Chocolate Judge on her delicious chocolate journeys around the world!

I am an international craft chocolate judge and IICCT level 3 certified chocolate taster.

12/08/2026

Want to find your next favorite chocolate from U.S., Caribbean, and Latin American 🌎 chocolate makers 🍫 who use ethically-sourced cacao? Check out the winners 🏅 of the regional competitions of the International Chocolate Awards! Web link in comments or follow their page here International Chocolate Awards ! Congratulations / mazel tov / felicitaciones 🎉 to all the winners! It was my immense honor and pleasure ❤️ to do my small part in judging. And stay tuned for the world finals!

26/07/2026

I was delighted to meet so many famous chocolate and pastry chefs and didn’t even have to travel ✈️ around the world to do it! I just had to drive 🏎️ downtown in my own city! New Orleans ⚜️ is the perfect place📍for the Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie as part of the Bocuse d’Or since we are such a culinary and foodie powerhouse! I joined some local friends Envie Chocolates , Jeremy Fogg, Chef Leonair Dorsey, and Ian McNulty to watch teams from around the Americas compete to represent the region in the upcoming international competition in Lyon. They had to make six different things, each within a timeframe: frozen plated dessert, chocolate street food, reinvented pecan pie, ice sculpture, buffet chocolate sculpture, and buffet sugar sculpture. They worked so hard and had some beautiful food and art pieces to show for it! Team USA 🇺🇸 earned 🏅 first place! And I won some personal smiles 😀 and a little giddiness meeting some amazing people who I have admired for a long time! Stick With Me Sweets Daniel Corpuz Chocolatier Amaury Guichon Pastry Academy Pierre Hermé Paris

10/07/2026

My beloved ❤️ niece Elizabeth .art recently graduated from Montclair University in New Jersey with a degree in illustration, so of course I commissioned her to paint 👩🏻‍🎨 a cacao tree in my guest bedroom! I told her I wanted it to look as real as possible and gave her pics from my cacao farm visits, some wooden pods, and close-ups of cacao tree flowers to use for reference. I think she nailed it! What do y’all think? Also, she’s still living in New Jersey in case y’all want to commission her up there! Next time she visits for a while, I plan to have her paint another one in my bedroom with different color pods. I honestly can’t draw a stick figure, so clearly she got ALL the artistic talent in the family!

07/07/2026

Happy World Chocolate 🌎🍫 Day! Feliz dia mundial del chocolate! Every day is chocolate day for me, but since the world decided to make it a special day, I’m enjoying a special chocolate bar to celebrate! Thank you so much to Olivia from YI SHI Cacao Collective for sharing this delicious collaboration bar she did with Kasama Chocolate with me on our trip to 🇹🇼 Taiwan. Who else is celebrating 🎉 World Chocolate Day? What bars or bonbons are y’all eating? Post a pic and/or tag the maker!

03/07/2026

Sadly, my last post about our amazing sensory trip to Taiwan 🇹🇼, and we definitely went out with a 💥 bang! On our last day while the Level 3 students were busy taking their tests, we ducked literally right next door from Fu Wan to Monkie Bar where bartender Ian, truly a mad scientist of concoctions, served five cocktails while Warren made some amuse bouche (all with 🍫 chocolate, of course!) to go with each drink! I fully believe that there is nothing that Ian won’t distill. One of his drinks that he calls “Late Night Comfort” included a saline solution and Japanese Oden soup that he distilled. He also makes edible perfumes that he uses to spray as a finish to some of his cocktail creations. My favorite, of course, was the nitrogen foam drinking chocolate made from 83% dark chocolate with soy milk and a dash of chocolate liqueur. I rarely drink alcohol, so you’ll seldom find me in a bar, but when there is a master of his craft doing innovative things like Ian, I will happily sit at his bar to be entertained! 🤩

01/07/2026

After visiting a cacao farm in southern 🇹🇼 Taiwan, we went to this cozy chocolate and coffee shop 牛角灣巧克力咖啡農園 that uses cacao and coffee beans from the same farm! Talk about using hyper-local ingredients! ✅ And they recently won a gold 🏅 award from Cacao of Excellence! Stop in for some chocolate bars and coffee when you are in Pingtung! ❤️🍫

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30/06/2026

After the factory tour, we gathered in the 福灣巧克力 Fu Wan Chocolate shop for a tasting of 17 of their bars. The shop is a beautiful and modern display of their chocolate bars and also features paintings from local artists who they hired to create representations of the four seasons for their four season bar collection. As you can see from my pics, I was hungry after our factory tour and wanted to jump right into the tasting! 🤣🤤

28/06/2026

A follow up to my previous post showing the beautiful grounds of the 福灣巧克力 Fu Wan Chocolate resort in Donggang Township, Pingtung, 🇹🇼 Taiwan. It is also a working chocolate 🍫 factory, and we were led on an informative tour by husband and wife owners Warren and Audrey. They do a lot of things differently at Fu Wan. First, they buy whole pods so they can control every aspect of production from pod to bar. Second, they ferment indoors so they can control temperature and humidity. Third, they age the dried beans at least one year in vacuum sealed packs. I love seeing companies try different ways to give us a wonderful chocolate end product! Their factory and store are a must see when you are in south Taiwan! ❤️🍫

The International Institute of Chocolate and Cacao Tasting

26/06/2026

We also had the pleasure of touring the Miracle Winery (there are many similarities between 🍫 chocolate and wine!) in Taichung 🇹🇼 Taiwan. We sampled four wines 🍷 while we were outside in a rare break from the rain ☔️ and another four inside during a multi-course lunch. Winemaker Chien-Hao Chen of Vino Formosa has led a fascinating life from being the first Asian student at the University of Burgundy and the first from a country where winemaking was illegal at the time to now having won numerous awards 🏅 from international wine competitions and so much in between that I wish we had a week just to listen to his stories. Please google him to be entertained by all he has accomplished from such an unlikely beginning. The winery is worth a visit when you are in Taiwan!

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