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Reveal! Vibrant @violetskychocolate's new Lavender & Mint bar is the 4th bar in my April Chocolate Uplift craft chocolate subscription boxes, and it is a blast of spring zing! 💚 Made with cacao from the ADIOESMAC cooperative in Cahabón, Guatemala - the local cacao varietal yields beans that are larger than average, which is quite interesting - plus cane sugar (cacao and sugar: all you need!), this rich and fruity 75% chocolate with gentle astringency is infused with lavender and topped with candied mint leaves by chocolate maker and innovator Hans of Violet Sky, for cool and refreshing spring dreams! 🌿 As are all of the bars in my boxes, it's #sustainable #slaveryfree #soyfree #smallbatch and #scrumptious ! 💜 And, for every subscription box sold, I donate a meal to a child at the #creerafrica rescue center in Côte d'Ivoire, which helps formerly trafficked children including those forced to work on farms that supply Big Chocolate. That's my #chocolatefreedomproject, and this is an exciting chocolate bar! 🌌

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Reveal! The 2nd bar in my April Chocolate Uplift craft chocolate subscription boxes is @dandelionchocolate's deliciously and gently fruity-chocolatey 2-ingredient (cacao and sugar, all you need!) @kokoakamili Tanzania bar! 🌞 I've added this selection at the smart request of a customer and friend who joined me at @gdalesandre's Dandelion book signing at @cocoaandcochi, and who became as enamored of this bar as I am! 💛 The bars in my box are always #sustainable #slaveryfree #soyfree #smallbatch and #scrumptious, and every box purchased means a meal for a formerly trafficked child at the #creerafrica rescue center in Côte d'Ivoire. 😀 Thank you - onward and upward! #chocolatefreedomproject #upliftthroughchocolate

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Reveal: @rangerchocolate made the 1st bar in my April Chocolate Uplift craft chocolate subscription boxes! 💙 Made in Portland, Oregon, with cacao from the Piura Valley of Peru, this bar is outrageously smooth, with no oils or additives of course, and it is amazingly flavorful with jammy notes from the cacao. This is a beloved 2-ingredient bar - cacao and sugar, all you need! - and I fell in love with it at the Northwest Chocolate Festival, @nwchocolate! 🌞 Like all the bars in my boxes, it is #sustainable #slaveryfree #soyfree #smallbatch and #scrumptious, and every box means a meal for a child at the #creerafrica rescue center in Côte d'Ivoire for trafficked kids, including kids trafficked onto farms that supply Big Chocolate brands. 🌍 Thank you, and here's to the #chocolatefreedomproject and #upliftthroughchocolate!

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Out the door: I put together a variation on my most recent Chocolate Uplift craft chocolate subscription boxes for a customer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, while out this way at "Chocolate Uplift East!" 🌼 The chocolate in every Chocolate Uplift box is always #sustainable #slaveryfree #soyfree #smallbatch and #scrumptious, and every box means a donation of a meal to a child at the #creerafrica Côte d'Ivoire rescue center for trafficked kids, including those trafficked onto farms that use what the UN calls the worst forms of child slave labor. That's why drugstore chocolate bars are so cheap: child slave labor is part of Big Chocolate's recipe. Thank you for choosing craft chocolate over industrial chocolate, and choosing people over profits! #chocolatefreedomproject #humanrights 💚 #BostonCambridgeApril2018 (at Cambridge, Massachusetts)

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Out the door: January Chocolate Uplift craft chocolate subscription boxes, with a meal for a formerly trafficked child at the #CreerAfrica rescue center for every box sold! @cacaohunters @chocolatenaive @domorichoc @omnomchocolate

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#chocolatefreedomproject update: I'm thrilled to have sent funds to #creerafrica, to buy rice for formerly trafficked kids who were rescued after escaping from cacao farms that use child slave labor in supplying big chocolate brands, or from other highly exploitative and abusive situations. 1 Chocolate Uplift subscription box sold = 1 meal, so this is a heartfelt thank-you to my dear subscribers! 💚 When I set up this donation plan, I asked CREER founder Chloe what the children at her Côte d'Ivoire rescue center needed, such as books, shoes, or toys, and she replied: *Rice!! We need to feed the kids!* Voilà! 🌍 That's how this part of my #chocolatefreedomproject works, as represented here by rice cake, cacao, and Uplift Through Chocolate stickers! For more info, see the Ethical Chocolate page on my website. And, let me know if you'd like to join me on a vision trip to visit the children! ✈ Thank you!!

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Out the door: more December Chocolate Uplift craft chocolate subscription boxes! 💚 For every box sold, I donate a meal to a formerly trafficked child at the #creerafrica rescue center in Côte d'Ivoire, who escaped from the bulk cacao farms that supply industrial chocolate brands. 💙 That's part of my #chocolatefreedomproject, and here's to #upliftthroughchocolate! 💛 Thank you!

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Speaking of fabulous patterns: @dicktaylorchocolate! This brilliantly beautiful bar is the exquisite new caramelized almond and cinnamon bar, one of my top holiday picks, which you'll find in this month's Chocolate Uplift craft chocolate subscription box! ❄ The chocolate itself is made from just cacao and sugar - all you need! - to which the team has added almonds that have been caramelized with sugar and cinnamon, all organic from cacao to inclusions! No dairy, no oils, no unpronounceables, no child slave labor. 💙 And, for every box sold, I donate a meal to a formerly trafficked child at the #creerafrica rescue center in Cote d'Ivoire. That's my #chocolatefreedomproject, and that's #upliftthroughchocolate!

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Reveal: #chocotenango's El Puro chocolate bar, made from Dominican cacao in Washington, DC, is the 4th bar in my September Chocolate Uplift craft chocolate subscription boxes! 💙 This award-winning bar has a silky texture and a sustainability ethos, as chocolatier and chocolate maker Ismael supports natural resource conservation in partnership with Ecologic Development Fund! 🌍 And, every Chocolate Uplift box supports #creerafrica, through a one-for-one give of a meal to formerly trafficked children who escaped from the bulk cacao farms in Côte d'Ivoire that supply industrial chocolate brands. 💜 Onward and upward! #upliftthroughchocolate #chocolatesubscriptionbox

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Reveal: #pumpstreetchocolate's 66% limited edition Brazil bar is the 3rd bar in my September Chocolate Uplift craft chocolate subscription boxes! 💙 The cacao is the unique Parasinho variety from the well-known Akesson estate in Bahia, and the chocolate gives complex and rich notes of berry, pepper, and molasses - all from the cacao and its expert handling by the Pump Street team, who start by roasting the cacao in the bread ovens of their Suffolk, England, bakery! 🍞 And, every Chocolate Uplift box gives a meal to a formerly trafficked child at the #creerafrica rescue center in Côte d'Ivoire, which rescues kids who were forced to work on the bulk cacao farms that supply industrial chocolate brands. 🌐 Here's to the world of sustainable cacao, and scrumptious #upliftthroughchocolate!

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Reveal: heavenly #harpermacaw's delicious and accessible yet elegant *57% Brazilian Rainforest Blend - Milk Chocolate* is the 1st bar in my September Chocolate Uplift craft chocolate subscription boxes! 💝 The cacao in this bar is a blend from the Atlantic and Amazon regions of Brazil, and every Harper Macaw bar sold means rainforest conservation. For example, Brazil's Atlantic Forest is 90% gone. Colin and Sarah and the Harper Macaw team invest in the expansion of Reserva Serra Bonita, an innovative rainforest conservation initiative. 🌱 Similarly, every Chocolate Uplift box sold means a meal for a child at the #creerafrica rescue center in Côte d'Ivoire, which rescues formerly trafficked kids who were forced to work on the bulk cacao farms that supply industrial chocolate brands, and helps the kids return to their families, find a foster family, or stay at the center and learn a trade - the kids can get healthy and become kids again. 🐦 Here's to conservation and uplift through sustainable, slavery-free, soy-free, small-batch, scrumptious chocolate! 💓 #chocolatefreedomproject #chocolatesubscriptionbox

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Reveal: #harpermacaw's bright and balanced 70% Brazilian Rainforest Blend is the 4th bar in my August Chocolate Uplift craft chocolate subscription box! 🌞 Named for the beautiful bird of Brazil, the macaw, each bar from this brand is made from Brazilian cacao and supports the protection of 30 square feet of rainforest. 🌟 And each bar in my box means a meal for a formerly trafficked child at the #creerafrica rescue center in Cote d'Ivoire, which helps kids who escaped from the bulk cacao farms that supply industrial chocolate brands. 💛 Here's to the #chocolatefreedomproject and #upliftthroughchocolate!

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Reveal: the beautiful and delicious za'atar bar by #violetskychocolate is the 3rd bar in my August Chocolate Uplift craft chocolate subscription box! 💖 Topped with a housemade Middle Eastern blend of sesame seeds, sumac berry, thyme, and sea salt, this rich chocolate bar made in the Midwest on Maya Mountain cacao of Belize is a global party! 🌎 And, for every box sold, I donate a meal to a formerly trafficked child at the #creerafrica rescue center in Côte d'Ivoire, which helps kids who escaped from the bulk cacao farms that supply industrial chocolate brands. ☀️ Thank you and here's to #upliftthroughchocolate!

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Reveal: #bellflowerchocolate's 1st limited edition chocolate bar, with candied yuzu peel, is the 2nd bar in my August Chocolate Uplift craft chocolate subscription box! 💙 Made from cacao grown on the amazing #caminoverde cacao estate in Ecuador, just like the 1st bar in this month's box (see 2 posts back!), this bar expresses earthier flavors, and is topped with citrusy candied yuzu and wrapped in handmade Japanese paper, to honor the Japanese immigrants who helped build vibrant Seattle, where Bellflower Chocolate is based! Plus, chocolate makers Callie and Will donate 10% of each bar sale to a refugee organization, to help the next generation of immigrants. 🌐 And, for every box sold, I donate a meal to a formerly trafficked child at the #creerafrica rescue center in Côte d'Ivoire, which helps kids who escaped from the bulk cacao farms that supply industrial chocolate brands. ☀️ That's part of my #chocolatefreedomproject, and here's to #upliftthroughchocolate!

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Reveal: our Ecuador exploration continues with #xocolatlchocolate's rich Ecuador chocolate bar, expressing notes of nutmeg and cream from just 2 ingredients - cacao and sugar, all you need! - as the 1st bar in my August Chocolate Uplift craft chocolate subscription box! 💛 I loved visiting the spectacular #caminoverde farm where the beans were grown and fermented, and visiting Xocolatl's precision production and retail space in Atlanta; that's bean-to-bar travel, isn't it! 🌱 The bars in my box are always #sustainable #slaveryfree #soyfree #smallbatch and #scrumptious! 🌞 And, as part of my #chocolatefreedomproject, every box means a donation of a meal to a formerly trafficked child at the #creerafrica rescue center in Côte d'Ivoire, which helps kids who escaped from forced work on cacao farms that supply industrial chocolate brands. 🌎 Thank you and here's to #upliftthroughchocolate!

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Reveal: awesome #askanyachocolate's amazing Minuit (Midnight, Darling!) 60% dark chocolate bar is in my Chocolate Uplift craft chocolate subscription box! 🌒 It's made in Haiti, from Haiti cacao plus sugar and a touch of vanilla bean - that's all! - for pure, rounded, clean, earthy-chocolatey flavor, with a mid-note (midnight?) burst of brightness, and a satisfying semi-particulate texture! 🌟 And as always: one box = one meal for the formerly trafficked cacao kids at the #creerafrica rescue center. That's my #chocolatefreedomproject, and this is uplift through chocolate! 🌍 #chocolatesubscriptionbox #sustainable #slaveryfree #soyfree #smallbatch #scrumptious