Podcasts by The Slow Melt: A podcast about chocolate
The first podcast to cover the continuum of chocolate, The Slow Melt uses chocolate as the thick, delicious lens through which to explore the world—from flavor and physiology to chemistry and conservation, from global markets and gender to climate change, social justice and beyond—highlighting the people, places and processes behind this $100 billion industry. By better understanding chocolate, we can better appreciate it, more easily identify what we love, and support the makers and producers that create those kinds of bars.
The Slow Melt is hosted and written by journalist and author Simran Sethi. Guests include farmers, conservationists, manufacturers, tasting experts, scientists, social justice advocates, chocolate purveyors and, of course, award-winning chocolate makers.
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Makers Series 9: Fruition Chocolate from 2017-10-06T18:19:49
Fruition Chocolate was founded in 2011 by Bryan Graham and is based in Woodstock, USA. The company is known for stone-grinding cocoa beans as a means, Bryan says, of accentuating their inherent ...
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Preview of Makers Series 9: Fruition Chocolate from 2017-09-29T20:04:52
Fruition Chocolate was founded in 2011 by Bryan Graham and is based in Woodstock, USA. The company is known for stone-grinding cocoa beans as a means, Bryan says, of accentuating their inherent ...
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Makers Series 8: Theo Chocolate from 2017-09-22T14:30:17
Theo Chocolate was founded in 2006 by Joe Whinney and Debra Music and is based in Seattle, USA. The company is known as being the first organic, fair-trade certified, bean-to-bar chocolate maker...
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Preview of Makers Series 8: Theo Chocolate from 2017-09-15T14:47:43
Theo Chocolate was founded in 2006 by Joe Whinney and Debra Music and is based in Seattle, USA. The company is known as being the first organic, fair-trade certified, bean-to-bar chocolate maker...
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Makers Series 7: Cailo Chocolate from 2017-09-08T18:28:50
Cailo Chocolate was founded in 2016 by the Castillo and Carniello families and is based in Perth, Australia. The bean-to-bar producer sources its cocoa beans from the Bocas del Toro region of Pa...
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Preview of Makers Series 7: Cailo Chocolate from 2017-09-01T19:05:09
Cailo Chocolate was founded in 2016 by the Castillo and Carniello families and is based in Perth, Australia. The bean-to-bar producer sources its cocoa beans from the Bocas del Toro region of Pa...
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Makers Series 6: Cacao Hunters from 2017-08-25T03:16:46
Cacao Hunters was founded in 2013 by Carlos Ignacio Velasco and Mayumi Ogata and is based in Popayán, Colombia. The company is dedicated to finding, preserving and promoting heirloom varieties o...
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Preview of Makers Series 6: Cacao Hunters from 2017-08-18T18:52:34
Cacao Hunters was founded in 2013 by Carlos Ignacio Velasco and Mayumi Ogata and is based in Popayán, Colombia. The company is dedicated to finding, preserving and promoting heirloom varieties o...
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Makers Series 5: Marou, Faiseurs de Chocolat from 2017-08-11T18:08:14
Marou, Faiseurs de Chocolat, was founded in 2011 by Vincent Mourou and Samuel Maruta and is based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The company is the first artisan chocolate maker based in Vietnam,...
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Preview of Makers Series 5: Marou, Faiseurs de Chocolat from 2017-08-04T19:50:47
Marou, Faiseurs de Chocolat, was founded in 2011 by Vincent Mourou and Samuel Maruta and is based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The company is the first artisan chocolate maker based in Vietnam,...
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Makers Series 4: Ritual Chocolate from 2017-07-28T17:49:22
Ritual Chocolate was founded in 2010 by Robbie Stout and Anna Davies and is based in Park City, USA. The company makes small-batch, bean-to-bar chocolate by hand using classic European methods, ...
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Preview of Makers Series 4: Ritual Chocolate from 2017-07-21T18:09
Ritual Chocolate was founded in 2010 by Robbie Stout and Anna Davies and is based in Park City, USA. The company handmakes small-batch, bean-to-bar chocolate using classic European methods, and ...
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Makers Series 3: Valrhona from 2017-07-14T11:21:22
Valrhona was founded in 1922 by Albéric Guironnet in the small village of Tain L’Hermitage, France, and is now also based in Brooklyn, USA. The company is dedicated to enhancing the flavors of r...
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Preview of Makers Series 3: Valrhona from 2017-07-07T17:25:27
Valrhona was founded in 1922 by Albéric Guironnet in the small village of Tain L’Hermitage, France, and is now also based in Brooklyn, USA. The company is dedicated to enhancing the flavors of r...
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Makers Series 2: Askinosie Chocolate from 2017-06-30T05:00
Askinosie Chocolate was founded in 2007 in Springfield, USA, by Shawn Askinosie, who left his job as a criminal defense lawyer to pursue his love of chocolate. The company has an articulated com...
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Preview of Makers Series 2: Askinosie Chocolate from 2017-06-23T18:22:33
Askinosie Chocolate was founded in 2007 in Springfield, USA, by Shawn Askinosie, who left his job as a criminal defense lawyer to pursue his love of chocolate. The company has an articulated com...
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Makers Series 1: SOMA Chocolatemaker from 2017-06-16T21:51:22
There are so many incredible makers who are part of the emerging craft chocolate movement and bigger markets, we decided to create a series highlighting them. Our Makers Series will introduce yo...
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Preview of Makers Series 1: SOMA Chocolatemakers from 2017-06-09T21:48:23
There are so many incredible makers who are part of the emerging craft chocolate movement and bigger markets, we decided to create a series highlighting them. Our Makers Series will introduce yo...
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Episode 9: Your Chocolate is Probably African (part 2) from 2017-06-02T00:45
Part 2: Although cacao’s birthplace is across the upper Amazon in South America, 70 percent of cacao comes from West Africa. In this two-part episode, we’re exploring the history and politics of...
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Episode 9: Your Chocolate is Probably African (part 1) from 2017-05-26T01:25:32
Although cacao’s birthplace is across the upper Amazon in South America, 70 percent of cacao comes from West Africa. In this two-part episode, we’ll explore the history and politics of chocolate...
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Preview of Episode 9: Your Chocolate Is Probably African from 2017-05-19T18:43:44
Although cacao’s birthplace is across the upper Amazon in South America, 70 percent of cacao comes from West Africa. In this two-part episode, we’ll explore the history and politics of chocolat...
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Episode 8: The Deep Origin: Latin America from 2017-05-12T00:08:49
The cocoa and chocolate we know and love was born in the upper Amazon and domesticated (turned into chocolate) in Mesoamerica. In this episode, we will explore the history of the food of the god...
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Preview of Episode 8: The Deep Origin: Latin America from 2017-05-05T19:56:36
The cocoa and chocolate we know and love was born in the upper Amazon and domesticated (turned into chocolate) in Mesoamerica. In this episode, we will explore the history of the food of the god...
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Episode 7: The Craft Of Chocolate from 2017-04-21T02:16:55
The specialty chocolate industry has grown exponentially but is still in the process of defining itself. We will explore this evolving industry and some of the leaders who are helping shape it. ...
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Preview of Episode 7: The Craft of Chocolate from 2017-04-14T18:31:07
The specialty chocolate industry has grown exponentially but is still in the process of defining itself. We will explore this evolving industry and some of the leaders who are helping shape it. ...
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Episode 6: Save By Savoring from 2017-04-06T22:09:36
Disease, climate change and low wages are just a few of the reasons we are losing some of the most diverse, delicious varieties of cocoa. In this episode, we will explore some of the efforts to ...
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Preview of Episode 6: Save By Savoring from 2017-03-31T19:11:49
Disease, climate change and low wages are just a few of the reasons we are losing some of the most diverse, delicious varieties of cocoa. In this episode, we will explore some of the efforts to ...
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Episode 5: Eat With Your Ears (And More) from 2017-03-24T01:12:27
Most of our experience of chocolate comes from smell and taste but also touch, sight and sound. In this episode, we’ll explore the sense people think of most when it comes to eating chocolate—an...
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Preview of Episode 5: Eat With Your Ears (And More) from 2017-03-17T18:58
Most of our experience of chocolate comes from smell and taste but also touch, sight and sound. In this episode, we’ll explore the sense people think of most when it comes to eating chocolate—an...
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Episode 4: The High Price of Cheap Chocolate from 2017-03-10T01:18:18
Over 40 percent of cocoa comes from Ivory Coast and one-fourth of the population—about 6 million people—earn their living through the crop. In the past year, the price of cocoa has dropped by 30...
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Preview of Episode 4: The High Price of Cheap Chocolate from 2017-03-06T22:29:36
Over 40 percent of cocoa comes from Ivory Coast and one-fourth of the population—about 6 million people—earn their living through the crop. In the past year, the price of cocoa has dropped by 30...
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Episode 3: We Eat the Seeds from 2017-02-23T23:32:44
Many of us have been eating chocolate since childhood, but few can recognize it in nature. In this episode, we start at the farm with the pod-shaped fruit and its bitter seeds. Those seeds start...
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Preview of Episode 3: We Eat the Seeds from 2017-02-17T20:58:06
Many of us have been eating chocolate since childhood, but few can recognize it in nature. In this episode, we start at the farm with the pod-shaped fruit and its bitter seeds. Those seeds start...
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Episode 2: Be Still My Heart from 2017-02-10T04:07:33
Chocolate: food of the gods, balm of our hearts, and, at one point in time, a symbol of sacrifice and stand-in for human blood. In this episode, we explore what makes chocolate sexy and how to d...
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Pilot: Chocolate is Multiple from 2017-01-27T05:17:17
Chocolate, like love and truth, is multiple. This pilot episode gives an overview of the different people, places and processes involved in creating chocolate—and the steps involved in savoring ...
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Season One Preview: A Podcast about Chocolate from 2017-01-10T22:04:49
Welcome to The Slow Melt—the first podcast to cover the continuum of chocolate. Hosted by Simran Sethi, The Slow Melt uses chocolate as the thick, delicious lens through which to explore the wor...
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