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Whether your taste runs to bitter dark, creamy milk or luscious white, New England’s family-owned craft chocolate factories are a golden ticket to scrumptiousness. Here are 10 makers with confections you won’t be able to resist.
Goodnow Farms – Sudbury, Massachusetts
This award-winning chocolatier in Central Massachusetts creates an incredible range of slender, elegant, single-origin chocolate bars. Each captures the antioxidant, stimulating properties of this much sugar-abused bean and has a high cocoa solids count: milk chocolate runs at about 64%, while dark goes from 73% to a whopping 100%. Each displays individual, regional flavor – terroir, if you will – of the cacao’s origin!
Goodnow Farms also partners with local producers, such as whiskey or maple syrup makers, to create delicately flavored variations that don’t deter the tongue from the characteristics of the cacao. Goodnow also has single-origin cacao powder, cacao nibs and cacao tea – made from nibs not shells, thus avoiding high tannins and also creating superior chocolatey wine-y flavor.
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