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A special Dove for the 35th anniversary
Almost 35 years have passed since June 6, 1986, when we opened our company's first office in Loano at 45 Gazzi Street. It was called Delight Bakery, and Mary and I were little more than kids. I was 20 and she was 18. A lot has happened since that day; two daughters,...
For Truffles with the Chef
During the truffle-seeking season, Silvio Bessone serves the prized white truffles from the Monregalese region and the prized black sweet truffle or summer scorzone in the Cioccolocanda restaurant. But the Look Down stopped us at the most beautiful. To enable all...
Easter, the festival of colors
Easter has always celebrated resurrection, joy after sorrow. In this time of suffering from human losses and restrictions on affections and friendships, I can only contribute virtually to the joy of the eyes and soul with this short clip I recorded some time ago. And...
Happy Easter
This is the most unexpected and strange Easter of my life, never had it occurred to me to be locked in the office and not be able to admire the look of grandparents buying eggs for grandchildren. But we should not focus on the things we cannot influence, such as...
Mbingu 75% Dark Chocolate
Thischocolate was born out of the need to make a Chocolate with the highest quality African cocoa and 100% controlled supply chain. Having met the Sisters of Mbingu was providential; in one year I made two trips to Tanzania to help the sisters improve their production...
Chocolate is also good for massage. A Gift Idea!
Chocolate Massages are one of the services you can find at the Chocolate Inn in Vicoforte. This is not an aesthetic service but exclusively benerre and Relaxation. Diano practices a personalized California massage using natural cocoa, which is rich in triacides and...
Passion Chocolate online course gift idea for Christmas
Venezuela’s Cacao
Cacao Porcelain from Venezuela Venezuela: it is an extraordinary country, it has maintained for two centuries its cocoa culture and method of process. He developed knowledge and techniques until the 1970s-80s with truly amazing results. CHUAO, the most famous cocoa in...
Chocolate was born from a passion.
Franciscan Sisters of Mbingu Tanzania 2016 Passing on knowledge to increase everyone's satisfaction In 2016 I made two visits to Mbingu, with my friends Marco Bosio and Enzo Gaboardi. Lo purpose was to help a core group of Franciscan Sisters optimize and Make their...
No more junk Easter Egg surprises!
Every time you buy or give a useless thing you harm yourself and the environment! https://vimeo.com/327531210 Have you ever thought about how much crap is put as surprises in Easter eggs every year? Plastic chinooks without the slightest value! Ruminate! that children...
Farewell to historic brand Peyrano Chocolate
I am really sad about the news, but I am not surprised. Unfortunately, this is the state of the art of companies that at some point no longer know how to redesign themselves, the very history of this company speaks that Antonio in 1920 transformed a candy factory into...
New Year’s Eve 2019 with Dive into Chocolate
New Year's Eve 2019 with chocolate dip Last New Year's Eve, 2018's New Year's Eve at the Cioccolocanda in Vicoforte was a really big success.Yes, because you should know that in my Cioccolocanda, for years now, I have been organizing an incredible event: a dinner with...
Trinitad & Tobago. Fina summer 75%
This is a very special cocoa, a victim of a hurricane in 1954 initiated the greatest genetic mutation in history. An act of solidarity resulted in thousands of farmers, from the Caribbean Sea, donating graft branches to repopulate the plants deprived of their foliage...
Gianduia Mery
Gianduia is the chocolate of my land. It has those sweet and harmonious notes that characterize it and make it loved all over the world. This recipe is quite special-not too sweet and not too bitter, the Chocolate is not too hard and not too delicate. Years ago a...
Chuao, Jhodairis Fondant 70%.
This has always been called the best cocoa in the world, yes the first and legendary Chuao, the only cocoa in the world to have certification of origin. I have known Sora (the president of the Chuao cooperative) for many years, and although her grandson now runs the...
Leonardo milk 40%
A milk chocolate of rare quality, we could say UNIQUE in the world. A chocolate for which I absolutely controlled the supply chain starting with cacao from Chuao, which I personally followed from its harvest through the work of the women of Chuao during my 2017 visit,...