Continuing to spread all over the country, Potomac Chocolate is now available in Cambridge, Massachusetts at Formaggio Kitchen! Formaggio carries a wide variety of gourmet foods, including cheese, bread, wine and, of course, chocolate. Their chocolate selection is focused on bean-to-bar and single varietal chocolates, and they’re eager to support small, domestic artisan producers. While […]
I’m excited to announce that all 3 Potomac Chocolate bars are available at Cacao in Portland, Oregon. In addition to a great selection of fine eating chocolate, Cacao is also known for their drinking chocolate which is available in several different varieties. So stop in, pick up a Potomac and have a drink! Cacao’s main […]
Yesterday, the USDA retired the old food pyramid and released a new edu-graphic in it’s place: MyPlate: While it’s a huge improvement over the pyramid, they seem to have missed one of the most important food groups. So, as a public service, I submit the following corrected version: 🙂 -Ben
I learned a couple weeks ago that Biagio Abatiello was selling Biagio Fine Chocolate in DC and leaving the fine chocolate retail business. Biagio has been a great friend to Potomac Chocolate and has been instrumental to its early success. Besides just introducing me to a lot of fantastic chocolate and being the first shop […]
Details Magazine has listed Potomac Chocolate as one of the best American Bean-to-Bar chocolate makers. Check out the full article below: An Insider’s Guide to the American Chocolate Renaissance -Ben
The District Chocoholic has been a good friend to Potomac Chocolate. She was the first* to review the just-launched Upala 70%. She frequently talks up the chocolate on Twitter and in the real world. She created a cookie recipe incorporating the 70% bar and she’s even sent some across the Atlantic to Lee at Chocolate […]
Lee over at Chocolate Reviews posted a great review of my Upala 82% bar today. Here’s my favorite part: If you’re buying hand-made, small-batch chocolate you’re buying into an artisan, rustic, unique ethos. And that comes over in spades with this bar. […] This is truly wonderful bar of bitter dark chocolate. […] The aroma […]
The Academy of Chocolate announced the winners of the 2011 awards today. I’m thrilled to announce that my Upala 70% bar was awarded Silver in the ‘Bean to Bar Best Dark Bar’ category! The AoC awards are the big awards when it comes to fine chocolate with over 450 entries this year. There were four […]
I couldn’t be more excited to announce that Potomac Chocolate is now available from Chocadores, an online chocolate shop based in the UK! Chocadores offers a great collection of chocolate and primarily serves the UK and Europe, but also ships worldwide. Chocadores is dedicated to offering their customers only the finest chocolate made from the […]
If you like the Potomac Chocolate Facebook page, you’ve already seen all of these announced. But, for those who just follow the blog, I wanted to be sure that you noticed the locations page that lists all of the retail outlets that currently carry Potomac Chocolate. With the latest addition of the two Unwined shops […]