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The future is here people, and it is sweet — or at least minty fresh.

As artisans, chocolatiers should consider how they can disrupt the norm and entice consumers to experience chocolate and use chocolate in new ways.

It’s not what the industry expected. Not what people heavily committed to the cause expected.

The thing about marijuana is that it’s infiltrating the candy world whether we like it or not. Which, of course, leads to the multi-million-dollar question, do we like it?

Thompson sat down with Candy Industry Magazine to chat about the new retail store, premium chocolate and Ghirardelli.

Millennials. Those narcissistic, lazy, entitled…wait, stop. Hold the smartphone.

It’s things like this that make me wonder if I should just give up and accept the fact that someday sugar will be as regulated as tobacco.

This most recent trip satisfied not only my curiosity about the region; it revealed the country’s inner soul.

The Institute of Food Technologists show is a weird place to grab a bite to eat.

For a while, it seemed that chocolate was fast becoming the panacea for all ills. Heart problems, eat chocolate. High cholesterol, 30 grams a day will do. Feeling sluggish, down-and-out? Chocolate to the rescue.