Chocolate Tasting

Taste four custom crafted chocolate bars from Cocoa Vivre, a sustainable local Black Owned Business in New Jersey while you explore the history, science, and modern process of chocolate making. Develop a finer taste and deeper appreciation for this globally beloved treat.

How It Works

Led by your own personal chocolatier, this experience will explore the basics of chocolate tasting and historical anecdotes. When you open up these chocolate boxes in the mail, you will see four handcrafted bars. Each bar is a decadent treat designed to melt in your mouth and bring out flavors in chocolate you've probably never tasted before. We only source fair trade chocolate that supports West African Farmers, from our partner, Cocoa Vivre, a sustainable local Black Owned Business in New Jersey.

• Pair interesting and delicious flavors with chocolate 

• Explore the myth behind chocolate’s inception and it’s cross-continental journey

• Laugh at a history of recorded crazy chocolate experiments in Europe, including chocolate lasagna with chocolate a la sardines… hard to believe, we know!

• Learn about the underbelly of the chocolate industry and how West African growers are using Fair Trade certifications to reclaim their specialization in the chocolate economy with an industry specialist

• Geek out about how changes your brain chemistry

What's Included

Four custom made craft chocolate bars in a gift set shipped directly to participants. 

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Your Host -Chef Tova

Tova graduated at the top of her class from the Culinary Institute of America where she was classically trained in French cuisine. She then went on to be a private chef for international celebrities including Paul McCartney and Jimmy Buffett. Tova’s work includes pop-up event designing for Soho House. When the pandemic hit, she was inspired to create virtual tasting events that were anything but boring… and the rest is history.

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