The Slow Melt: A podcast about chocolate
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The Slow Melt: A podcast about chocolate
The first podcast to cover the continuum of chocolate, The Slow Melt uses chocolate as the thick, delicious lens through which to explore the world—from flavor and physiology to chemistry and conservation, from global markets and gender to climate change, social justice and beyond—highlighting the p...
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Makers Series 9: Fruition Chocolate
Fruition Chocolate was founded in 2011 by Bryan Graham and is based in Woodstock, USA. The company is known for stone-grinding cocoa beans as a means,...
Preview of Makers Series 9: Fruition Chocolate
Fruition Chocolate was founded in 2011 by Bryan Graham and is based in Woodstock, USA. The company is known for stone-grinding cocoa beans as a means,...
Makers Series 8: Theo Chocolate
Theo Chocolate was founded in 2006 by Joe Whinney and Debra Music and is based in Seattle, USA. The company is known as being the first organic, fair-...
Preview of Makers Series 8: Theo Chocolate
Theo Chocolate was founded in 2006 by Joe Whinney and Debra Music and is based in Seattle, USA. The company is known as being the first organic, fair-...
Makers Series 7: Cailo Chocolate
Cailo Chocolate was founded in 2016 by the Castillo and Carniello families and is based in Perth, Australia. The bean-to-bar producer sources its coco...
Preview of Makers Series 7: Cailo Chocolate
Cailo Chocolate was founded in 2016 by the Castillo and Carniello families and is based in Perth, Australia. The bean-to-bar producer sources its coco...
Makers Series 6: Cacao Hunters
Cacao Hunters was founded in 2013 by Carlos Ignacio Velasco and Mayumi Ogata and is based in Popayán, Colombia. The company is dedicated to finding, p...
Preview of Makers Series 6: Cacao Hunters
Cacao Hunters was founded in 2013 by Carlos Ignacio Velasco and Mayumi Ogata and is based in Popayán, Colombia. The company is dedicated to finding, p...
Makers Series 5: Marou, Faiseurs de Chocolat
Marou, Faiseurs de Chocolat, was founded in 2011 by Vincent Mourou and Samuel Maruta and is based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The company is the fir...
Preview of Makers Series 5: Marou, Faiseurs de Chocolat
Marou, Faiseurs de Chocolat, was founded in 2011 by Vincent Mourou and Samuel Maruta and is based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The company is the fir...
Makers Series 4: Ritual Chocolate
Ritual Chocolate was founded in 2010 by Robbie Stout and Anna Davies and is based in Park City, USA. The company makes small-batch, bean-to-bar chocol...
Preview of Makers Series 4: Ritual Chocolate
Ritual Chocolate was founded in 2010 by Robbie Stout and Anna Davies and is based in Park City, USA. The company handmakes small-batch, bean-to-bar ch...
Makers Series 3: Valrhona
Valrhona was founded in 1922 by Albéric Guironnet in the small village of Tain L’Hermitage, France, and is now also based in Brooklyn, USA. The compan...
Preview of Makers Series 3: Valrhona
Valrhona was founded in 1922 by Albéric Guironnet in the small village of Tain L’Hermitage, France, and is now also based in Brooklyn, USA. The compan...
Makers Series 2: Askinosie Chocolate
Askinosie Chocolate was founded in 2007 in Springfield, USA, by Shawn Askinosie, who left his job as a criminal defense lawyer to pursue his love of c...
Preview of Makers Series 2: Askinosie Chocolate
Askinosie Chocolate was founded in 2007 in Springfield, USA, by Shawn Askinosie, who left his job as a criminal defense lawyer to pursue his love of c...
Makers Series 1: SOMA Chocolatemaker
There are so many incredible makers who are part of the emerging craft chocolate movement and bigger markets, we decided to create a series highlighti...
Preview of Makers Series 1: SOMA Chocolatemakers
There are so many incredible makers who are part of the emerging craft chocolate movement and bigger markets, we decided to create a series highlighti...
Episode 9: Your Chocolate is Probably African (part 2)
Part 2: Although cacao’s birthplace is across the upper Amazon in South America, 70 percent of cacao comes from West Africa. In this two-part episode,...
Episode 9: Your Chocolate is Probably African (part 1)
Although cacao’s birthplace is across the upper Amazon in South America, 70 percent of cacao comes from West Africa. In this two-part episode, we’ll e...
Preview of Episode 9: Your Chocolate Is Probably African
Although cacao’s birthplace is across the upper Amazon in South America, 70 percent of cacao comes from West Africa. In this two-part episode, we’ll...
Episode 8: The Deep Origin: Latin America
The cocoa and chocolate we know and love was born in the upper Amazon and domesticated (turned into chocolate) in Mesoamerica. In this episode, we wil...
Preview of Episode 8: The Deep Origin: Latin America
The cocoa and chocolate we know and love was born in the upper Amazon and domesticated (turned into chocolate) in Mesoamerica. In this episode, we wil...
Episode 7: The Craft Of Chocolate
The specialty chocolate industry has grown exponentially but is still in the process of defining itself. We will explore this evolving industry and so...
Preview of Episode 7: The Craft of Chocolate
The specialty chocolate industry has grown exponentially but is still in the process of defining itself. We will explore this evolving industry and so...
Episode 6: Save By Savoring
Disease, climate change and low wages are just a few of the reasons we are losing some of the most diverse, delicious varieties of cocoa. In this epis...
Preview of Episode 6: Save By Savoring
Disease, climate change and low wages are just a few of the reasons we are losing some of the most diverse, delicious varieties of cocoa. In this epis...
Episode 5: Eat With Your Ears (And More)
Most of our experience of chocolate comes from smell and taste but also touch, sight and sound. In this episode, we’ll explore the sense people think...
Preview of Episode 5: Eat With Your Ears (And More)
Most of our experience of chocolate comes from smell and taste but also touch, sight and sound. In this episode, we’ll explore the sense people think...
Episode 4: The High Price of Cheap Chocolate
Over 40 percent of cocoa comes from Ivory Coast and one-fourth of the population—about 6 million people—earn their living through the crop. In the pas...
Preview of Episode 4: The High Price of Cheap Chocolate
Over 40 percent of cocoa comes from Ivory Coast and one-fourth of the population—about 6 million people—earn their living through the crop. In the pas...
Episode 3: We Eat the Seeds
Many of us have been eating chocolate since childhood, but few can recognize it in nature. In this episode, we start at the farm with the pod-shaped f...
Preview of Episode 3: We Eat the Seeds
Many of us have been eating chocolate since childhood, but few can recognize it in nature. In this episode, we start at the farm with the pod-shaped f...
Episode 2: Be Still My Heart
Chocolate: food of the gods, balm of our hearts, and, at one point in time, a symbol of sacrifice and stand-in for human blood. In this episode, we ex...
Pilot: Chocolate is Multiple
Chocolate, like love and truth, is multiple. This pilot episode gives an overview of the different people, places and processes involved in creating c...
Season One Preview: A Podcast about Chocolate
Welcome to The Slow Melt—the first podcast to cover the continuum of chocolate. Hosted by Simran Sethi, The Slow Melt uses chocolate as the thick, del...