The road less traveled by

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim, because it was grassy and wanted wear..." -- Robert Frost, from "The Road Not Taken"

If artists are used to putting their necks on chopping blocks, then this is the sweetest chocolate... er, chopping block we've ever seen. We love our new chopping block! To make a long story short, we are Clyo Howard and Beryl Wells Hamilton - lifelong best friends and lovers of each other, of beauty and art and flavor. We are artists, first. We make our living making beautiful things.

 Alongside Meadowlands Studio, where Clyo's busy making pottery, and Beryl keeps herself hopping making copper art, sculpture, Celtic Art, and paintings, we are starting a new business. We are going to make chocolate. Or, Clyo says, "Creating Chocolate." From raw, organic cocoa beans,starting out in a very small way, we are making chocolate.We are on our way.

Today,  from the Chocolate Alchemy web site, we ordered four pounds of cocoa beans that were harvested in Belize, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Peru. Every kind of bean has a different story, and we will tell it all here. Soon we'll be roasting, milling, grinding, conching, refining, and tempering these wonderful beans into pure, organic, rich, dark chocolate. More to follow. Much, much more!

Beryl