Sublime

Askinosie Chocolate is my vocation and it’s the only reason we’re able to do what we do.

I drove to Bend, to the Carmichael Candy factory. Everyday the janitors swept from its floors enough cookie crumbs to fill a fifty-gallon drum. For twenty bucks, they let me take all of it, along with a compromised batch of caramel. At home, in an industrial bucket, I mashed up a few pounds of cookie crumbs and caramel,

In 2003, Dutch journalist Teun van de Keuken reported on slave labor in the commodity chocolate market. His initial plan was to use publicity to shame the government and large chocolate companies to change the system. His frustration with the system led him to become a producer, and he founded Tony’s Chocolonely (named this way because he was the l