Gourmet Magazine - February 2009
Rolling Stone: Some chocolatemakers in New England have turned to old methods...
In an age when chocolate companies are adding bacon, wasabi, and olives to gussy up their confections, a small bean-to-bar operation in Somerville, Massachusetts, has opted for old-world purity. Taza Chocolate (tazachocolate.com) crafts an artisanal product that's stone-ground.
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Candy Wrapper Magazine - January 2009
Candy News: Chocolatiers 'craft' a new organization
While meeting at the Summer Fancy Food how in New York last year, five chocolate makers realized they had more in common than they thought. It was this realization that led them to form the Craft Chocolate Makers of America.
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The Boston Herald - November 2008
Setting the Bar Higher: Somerville chocolatier Taza creates delicious grownup treats.
Move over, Willy Wonka - there's a new chocolate factory in town. Sure, it may not be as whimsical as the kiddie fantasy tale, but at Taza Chocolate - nestled discreetly in a Somerville office park - you won't get in trouble for sampling the treats, and you don't need a golden ticket for admission.
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Wine Spectator - October 2008
The New Americans: Americans are now making their own chocolate.
A number of small companies in this country are doing something that's wholly unnecessary, likely crazy, but also really exciting. They're making their own chocolate.
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The Art of Eating - Issue 79 - October 2008
A different take on chocolate: Mexican-style from Taza (no conching)
Working in rented space in an industrial building near chop shops in Somerville, Massachusetts, is not a remelter of purchased chocolate - a high craft of its own as practiced by certain celebrated chocolatiers. Rather, it is one of a handful of superior new US producers of chocolate who work in small batches, starting with cocoa beans.
The Boston Globe - February 13th, 2008
Artisan chocolate makers set up shop in Somerville.
There are two kinds of chocolate producers in this country: people who actually transform cocoa beans into bars, and the creative people who take that chocolate and make delectable candies - anything from bark to truffles.
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Candy Wrapper Magazine - February 2008
An Interview With Larry Slotnick and Alex Whitmore, founders of Taza Chocolate
When Larry Slotnick hired Alex Whitmore to work for him at Zipcar as a "car-jockey," riding his bike from car to car, neither of them would have guessed that in the fall of 2006, they would start building a bean-to-bar chocolate company in Somerville, MA.
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