Every piece of chocolate—whether it’s a humble Hershey’s bar or an upmarket Scharffen Berger bar—starts out as a tiny cacao bean. Some chocolatiers, like Francois Kwaku-Dongo—who grew up on a ...

Rob Anderson is a geek. So he makes chocolate for other geeks, or, more accurately, "people who really like chocolate and geek out about it." What does he mean by that? If you change one step of the ...

Inside Look is a Bellingham Herald series where we take readers behind the scenes at restaurants, new businesses, local landmarks and news stories. A Bellingham chocolate factory has now become the ...

Working alongside chocolatiers in the food industry, researchers at ETH Zurich say they have identified a healthier and more sustainable way of creating chocolate, using more of the cocoa pod.

Eating modest amounts of dark chocolate may help slow the aging process, new research suggests.

Thanks to the recent boom in craft chocolate making, the world of chocolate tasting has become surprisingly rarefied. There are books, courses, online guides and even exam-based certificate classes ...

Because the pH of Dutch-process cocoa powder has been neutralized, it doesn’t react with baking soda in the same way natural ...

A KU’L Pure Dark Chocolate Bar from KU’L Chocolate Factory in Bellingham, Washington. K'UL Chocolate Courtesy to The Bellingham Herald Inside Look is a Bellingham Herald series where we take readers ...