Bite Sized: 5 Minutes with Arcelia Gallardo of Mission Chocolate

In this Bite Sized episode we hear from Arcelia Gallardo from Mission Chocolate in Sao Paulo, Brazil. When Arcelia first moved to Brazil and began making bean to bar chocolate, the quality of the Brazilian cacao that was available at the time was not great, but she was committed to working with it. She decided to set her chocolate apart by using the natural bounty Brazil, employing fruits and nuts that were unique to the new culture she found herself in. Here’s Arcelia to talk about the steps that led to working with ingredient like cupuacu and baru nut.