What is Bean-to-Bar Chocolate? (And why it's Totally Worth the Money) First of all, welcome to Chocexchange and thanks for clicking over to our blog! If you consider yourself a chocolate connoisseur you won't be disappointed with our selection. Over the coming weeks we'll be adding to our inventory, holding cool workshops and of course, publishing lots more articles that will (hopefully) leave you feeling like you've stumbled across the greatest chocolate focused website in the universe. This inaugural post however, is for …

A Conversation with Nat Bletter of Madre Chocolate Just by looking at Madre Chocolate’s array of chocolate bars, you can tell the founder is someone with endless curiosity. The flavor combinations take inspiration from Latin America and Southeast Asia, and the dark chocolate bars are made with cacao from single farms in Hawaii. What ties it all together is Nat Bletter, who spent years studying the use of plants in countries like Guatemala and Thailand, before teaching himself to make chocolate …