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Saturday, June 1, 2013

Mott Green, the first of the chocolate artisans

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Many people in the chocolate world will have many things to say about Mott Green in these coming days I am sure, but I wanted to say some o...
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Monday, November 5, 2012

Divine Chocolate: Ads with a Vision

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When I was on my year of doctoral fieldwork, after eight months on the cocoa farms of Asia-Pacific and Ghana, I traveled to London to study ...
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Monday, April 2, 2012

First attempt at mendiants, partial success

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I have had it in my plans for some time now to make a batch of homemade mendiants, to give away to my friends and thus increase their earthl...
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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Success at the UW Bothell Chocolate Festival!

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Every year at UW Bothell, I teach a class called Chocolate: A Global Inquiry. It's the only undergraduate class devoted to chocolate, an...
Friday, February 10, 2012

(Dr.) Chocolate in the news

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Valentine's Day approaches, so chocolate is in the news more than usual. Impeccable UW news reporter Molly McElroy has written an articl...
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Dr. Kristy Leissle is a scholar of cocoa and chocolate. Since 2004, her work has investigated the politics, economics, and cultures of these industries. Her recent book, Cocoa (Cambridge: Polity, 2018) explores cocoa geopolitics and personal politics, and was #3 on Food Tank’s 2018 Fall Reading List.
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