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- Buy some chocolate?
- First Chocolate
Ever wonder what a ton and half of chocolate looks like? Wonder no more!
- Fear and Loathing in Chocolateland
There’s a fairly vigorous, if rather one-sided, conversation happening on the net about whether chocolate manufacturers should be able to substitute fats other than cocoa butter in chocolate products and still call the result “chocolate.” (Say “vegetable oil” in a shocked, hoarse, sotto voce whisper.)
- Building a chocolate shop: progress, electrics, mold
Construction projects seem to go in spurts. We spend lots of time planning, waiting for ordered supplies, waiting for subs to show up, waiting for approvals, and generally worrying about how slowly things are going. Then it seems like everything is happening at once. This is a happening-at-once week.
- Building a chocolate shop: concrete
When we started shopping for a worrk space to lease, having adequate drainage for cleaning was on our feature shopping list. Almost none of the spaces we looked at had floor drains, and those that did had them in inconvenient places, usually under a water heater or next to a toilet. To make our current space usable …
- Building a chocolate shop: blank slate
We need to start by tearing out all the stuff we don’t want in the space we’re moving into. The beginning point is a demolition plan for the city.
- Building a chocolate shop: location
We’ve been busy. From a standing start, we’re creating a chocolate shop. In this series of postings, we’re going to try and give you a peek into some of the interesting steps along the way. We’ve tracked through a lot of possible places looking for a good place to set up our shop, and we think we’ve found a winner.
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