A 'Birnn' Desire: An inside look at Birnn Chocolates of Vermont, and the family that runs it
Fourth-generation family member Julia Birnn Fields and her husband Mel take over from famed confectioners Jeff and Bill Birnn, anxious to usher in the famed Vermont-based chocolatier into the next centennial.
It was definitely a “dad" question, she recalls. Her father, Jeff Birnn, co-owner with Uncle Bill Birnn of Birnn Chocolates of Vermont in South Burlington, Vt., posed a simple query back in the summer of 2010.