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Sweet Spot: Better living through chocolate
On a sunny Wednesday evening, I find myself in a small back room beside a stainless steel beast radiating heat and noise, a combination of whirring and humming. The beast is a Loring coffee roaster and its belly is full of cacao beans, not coffee. It feels - and smells - like I'm standing in an oven full of brownies.
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Shelley Bolton (l) and Merri Schwartz sort raw cacao beans at East Van Roasters
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Dan Toulgoet
Raw cacao beans ready for roasting
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Dan Toulgoet
The winnowing process: after the bean has been roasted, the husk must be removed. What's left is the cacao nib, ready for grinding.
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Dan Toulgoet
The winnowing process: after the bean has been roasted, the husk must be removed. What's left is the cacao nib, ready for grinding
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Dan Toulgoet
The roasted cacao bean and the husked cacao nib.
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Dan Toulgoet
Shelley Bolton (l) and Merri Schwartz sort raw cacao beans at East Van Roasters.
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Dan Toulgoet
One of the three women winnowing, Sri Rodwell shares a laugh with her co-workers.
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Dan Toulgoet
Customers can sit down at East Van Roasters for coffee or chocolate.
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Dan Toulgoet
Sugar is added as the beans are ground into a paste.
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Dan Toulgoet
Shelley Bolton adds the sugar.
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Dan Toulgoet
Passersby stop to take pictures.
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Dan Toulgoet
Sugar is added as the beans are ground into a paste.
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Dan Toulgoet
A scale in the front window with raw beans cacao and coffee.
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Dan Toulgoet
Finished slabs of chocolate.
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Dan Toulgoet
Cacao beans, not coffee, cool down in the Loring coffee roaster.
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Dan Toulgoet
Coffee beans ready for roasting.
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Dan Toulgoet
Finished chocolares, mendiant ginger and fruit.
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Dan Toulgoet
Finished chocolates, mendiant ginger and fruit.
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Dan Toulgoet
Finished chocoloates, pink peppercorn, nib and coconut and vanilla espresso
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Dan Toulgoet
