Chocolate has been embraced by the craft food movement and the results are luscious! Bean-to- Bar Chocolate reveals how America's makers are going back to the source--cacoa bean farms--and refining every stage of the production process to produce an amazing range of flavours. With tasting and pairing guidelines, recipes from top chocolatiers, and the stories of today's leading makers, this colourful book is a chocolate-lover's dream.

Author Megan Giller invites fellow chocoholics on a fascinating journey through America’s craft chocolate revolution. Learn what to look for in a craft chocolate bar and how to successfully pair chocolate with coffee, beer, spirits, cheese, or bread. This comprehensive celebration of chocolate busts some popular myths (like “white chocolate isn’t chocolate”) and introduces you to more than a dozen of the hottest artisanal chocolate makers in the US today. You’ll get a taste for the chocolate-making process and understand how chocolate’s flavor depends on where the cacao was grown — then discover how to turn your artisanal bars into unexpected treats with 22 recipes from master chefs.