{"id":12695,"date":"2014-10-26T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=12695"},"modified":"2014-10-26T10:32:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T14:32:05","slug":"another-regional-winner-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2014\/10\/26\/another-regional-winner-chocolate\/","title":{"rendered":"Another regional winner: chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dark,<\/a>

Dark, milk or white, lots of chocolate is being produced all over the place. Image: Romainhk<\/a>, Creative Commons<\/p><\/div>\n

New York, Vermont, Quebec and Ontario<\/span>\u00a0all produce lots<\/em> of maple syrup, an array of dairy products, big crops of apples and so on. NCPR has reported on micro-breweries<\/a>, craft beer studies<\/a>, wine producers<\/a> and wine trails<\/a> and experimental crops, like saffron<\/a>. Cocoa beans don’t grow here but it turns out our region makes some pretty good chocolate too.<\/span><\/p>\n

As reported by Laura Robin in the Ottawa Citizen<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Hummingbird Chocolate Maker<\/a>,\u00a0a three-year-old bean-to-bar chocolate company based in Almonte, has won a second set of honours in as many weeks.<\/p>\n

The International Chocolate Awards 2014 announced Monday Hummingbird has won Bronze in the Plain Dark Single-Origin category in the intensely competitive Americas semi-finals for its Hispaniola bar, which is made with beans from the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n

Last week, Hummingbird won Silver\u00a0in the Canada-wide competition in the\u00a0\u201cdark chocolate bars flavoured with an infusion or flavouring\u201d category for its Fleur de Sel bar, which is also made with beans from the Dominican Republic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not knowing much about the International Chocolate Awards<\/a> I went to their website. Wow, what an amazing number of categories<\/a>! And how might one apply to be a judge? (Hmm, experts only<\/a>. Too bad.)<\/p>\n

Vermont’s\u00a0Lake Champlain Chocolates (est. 1983)<\/a>\u00a0has its own bean-to-bar award winner in a new line under the Blue Bandana label: “winner of the 2014 Good Food Awards for its\u00a070% Madagascar Dark Chocolate Bar\u00a0and\u00a070% Madagascar Wild Pepper Dark Chocolate Bar.” Here’s a company Q & A<\/a> with Eric Lampman about that award and why he wanted to work on single-origin craft chocolate.<\/p>\n

Truth be told, it’s hard to write about all this without wanting to do more investigative reporting and some quality control sampling. But it’s nice to see this level of diversity and success as people in our region broaden what we make and eat.<\/p>\n

\"Where<\/a>

Where it starts: cocoa fruit with cocoa beans. Image by Mininus, Creative Commons<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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