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What does it take to make New American Chocolate? Obsession. Obsession with flavor. Obsession with innovation. Obsession over fusing the two to craft the very best chocolate, from bean to bar.

The obsession begins at origin. TCHO doesn’t just buy good beans, they help make the best beans. TCHOSource is their unique sourcing program, designed to obtain the best beans in the world while enabling the producers of those beans to earn a better living. TCHO goes beyond fair trade (which we also support) to partner directly with growers. TCHO helps them improve the genetics of their plants, improve their cacao fermentation by redesigning their fermentaria, and improve cacao drying by designing new drying racks. TCHO also provides flavor labs where they can actually make chocolate — for many, this is the first time they taste chocolate made from their own beans. Then TCHO provides sensory training so TCHO and their partners can speak a common language about the results of their efforts. And finally, TCHO links it all together in a common, cloud-based database — called Cropster — where they can share the results of all our efforts in real time. All to enable their partners to produce the exceptional, flavor-driven cacao that TCHO pays premium prices for, so they can make seriously superior chocolate — New American Chocolate.