{"id":18550,"date":"2021-03-01T16:48:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T16:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/?p=18550"},"modified":"2021-03-01T16:50:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T16:50:03","slug":"award-winning-chocolate-from-solomon-islands-cocoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/award-winning-chocolate-from-solomon-islands-cocoa\/","title":{"rendered":"AWARD-WINNING CHOCOLATE FROM SOLOMON ISLANDS COCOA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A friend drew my attention to Metiisto Artisan Chocolate, a company that sells a very limited number of bars worldwide, including here in the UK through Cocoarunners. Alas unavailable at the time I went to order. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Metiisto founders were living in Sweden making chocolate that won five international and four &#8216;academy of chocolate&#8217; awards. In 2018 they relocated to Toowoomba, Queensland in Australia and researched cocoa in the region to restart the business. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They settled on buying their cocoa from a tiny island called Paspaskato in the Solomon Islands. Tiny doesn&#8217;t quite do it justice, let me explain &#8211; there are a total of 2 (two) families on the island. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We hunted for the island on google maps, but apparently, there are places the google eye hasn&#8217;t reached yet, which just adds to the appeal of this exclusive (elusive) chocolate!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-qubely-image qubely-block-9806b7\"><div class=\"qubely-block-image  qubely-image-layout-simple\"><div class=\"qubely-image-media qubely-vertical-alignment-center qubely-horizontal-alignment-center\"><figure><div class=\"qubely-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"qubely-image-image\" src=\"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/75e5af_64d76cf48520409c8c0b906fbe000ef7_mv2.webp\" alt=\"\"\/><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend drew my attention to Metiisto Artisan Chocolate, a company that sells a very limited number of bars worldwide, including here in the UK through Cocoarunners. Alas unavailable at the time I went to order. The Metiisto founders were living in Sweden making chocolate that won five international and four &#8216;academy of chocolate&#8217; awards. 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