Megan Giller, SFA Trendspotter and food writer has had a lifelong love affair with chocolate. She’s author of Bean-to-Bar Chocolate: America’s Craft Chocolate Revolution, and her company, Chocolate Noise, leads private and public chocolate tastings, encouraging consumers to learn about craft chocolate.
Giller spoke with Adrianna Pirone, marketing manager, social media at SFA during an Instagram Live event, Wednesday, about what she observed at last week’s Specialty Food Live! event.
Speaking specifically about chocolate, Giller noted that more and more, products are being made in the countries where cacao grows.
“That sounds obvious,” she said, “Because of course people have been making chocolate in those areas for thousands of years, but because of industrialization, it started to be that cocoa was grown in one area of the world and chocolate was made in another area. It’s starting to be a shift, now that there’s small companies again. We’re seeing that kind of thing now in the Philippines and Indonesia, where previously they had sent cocoa beans out as an export. Now there are companies in those countries there making really delicious chocolate.”
Hear more from Giller on Specialty Food Association’s Instagram account.