Norton, Missouri’s state grape, offers deep, dark, jammy flavors — the estate Norton from Defiance Ridge Vineyards is a perfect foil for the rich, intense flavors in my Askinosie chocolate tart.
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This small company of only about 20 employees crafts bars that are shipped to about 500 retailers across the country.
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"It has absolutely nothing to do with chocolate. It has to do with mutuality and kinship. Those are the character traits of who we are as a company.”
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"I make sure that this relationship in business and in community programs, they are well done," Sarafiner says.
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Great chocolate begins on the farm because without amazing beans, you'll never have amazing chocolate.
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"Askinosie Chocolate pioneered, in the cocoa industry, what's called direct trade," says founder Shawn Askinosie.
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The team at Askinosie created Chocolate Univeristy to immerse young people in the business of chocolate, broadening their experience of the world and delivering "a-ha!" moments.
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Shawn Askinosie loved his work in the law, but was seeking something else, so he spent about five years while practicing law "trying to figure out what was next."
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