Category: Culinary Insiders

  • CSL Interviews | Cecilia Tessieri of Amedei Chocolate

      Their dream to make the best chocolate in the world, from bean to bar led the sister and brother team Alessio and Cecilia Tessieri to form exclusive contracts with producers in Venezuela, Trinidad, Grenada, Ecuador, and Jamaica and to create Amedei. Earning the golden bean award from London’s Academy of chocolate for three years,…


  • CSL Interviews | Art Pollard of Amano Artisanal Chocolate

    Founder of Amano chocolates based in Utah, USA, Art Pollard has travelled the world in search of the best cocoa beans. The former physics student pursued a challenge to make his own chocolate from bean to bar. CSL: How did you get involved in the chocolate business? Pollard: For as far back as I can…