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Episode 57 Overview
Anyone who has followed PodSaveChocolate (and TheChocolateLifeLIVE before it), knows that I care a great deal about the words and phrases we use because words inform beliefs, beliefs inform actions, and actions have consequences.
When it comes to communicating the value proposition for specialty chocolate (which I prefer to craft and bean-to-bar) agreeing on what the phrase means, even if it’s just for the sake of conversation, means the people who are party to the conversation aren’t talking past one another.
Craft beer and craft chocolate both have definitional challenges.
In Part 1 of this two-part series, I was a guest on David’s Bean to Barstool podcast, which was published last Tuesday, July 2nd. As I was a guest on David’s show, I was the interviewee, following David’s questioning lead.
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Quotes from my appearance.
While listening to that podcast is not required before watching this episode, it will frame the discussion I have with David in this episode, who, as a guest on my show, will be following my lead.
Posts About Pairing
I have written and talked about tasting and pairing often on TheChocolateLife and in episodes of PodSaveChocolate and TheChocolateLifeLIVE. Here are some highlights.
A chocolate and cheese pairing board I created with Kees Raat and Betty Koster for the Origin Chocolate Event in Amsterdam in 2017. Unfortunately, the original post is no longer online.
From the 2018 Origin Chocolate Event. Not a pairing, per se, but a way to think about teaching tasting chocolate under some pretty extreme circumstances.
A long-ago Valrhona tasting event I was a guest at that proves to be influential in my thinking to this day.
David’s Book
Pairing Beer & Chocolate: A Guide to Bringing the Flavors of Craft Beer and Craft Chocolate Together
Pairing Beer & Chocolate is a guide to enjoying craft beer and craft chocolate together, written by the host of the popular Bean to Barstool beer and chocolate podcast. Beer and chocolate can pair beautifully together, but knowing which beer styles to pair with which types of chocolate can get confusing.
Pairing Beer & Chocolate explains the basics of beer and chocolate, talks about how to taste them together, and then walks through dozens of beer styles to provide style-by-style guidance for pairing with craft chocolate.
Other Visual Resources
As I sometimes do, I asked a generative AI (in this case two of them, Leonardo and Firefly) to render images of cocoa beans on barstools. The results speak for themselves – but I took a selection of four images from more than twenty and used them to create the composite
Some generative AI fails. (Leonardo.)
More generative AI attempts. (Adobe Firefly.)
Questions?
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