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"Steve DeVries' love of chocolate began not with a sweet tooth, but on a trip to Costa Rica seven years ago. He was then a successful owner of a glass art company who, after years of creating gallery, public, and industrial works, was nearing burnout. While in central America, DeVries saw his first cacao tree and bought some beans just for the hell of it..." |
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"Steve DeVries is 100 years behind the times. With vintage equipment, he hand-crafts chocolate from bean to bar the way artisans have for centuries, starting with varietal cacao (which he sources directly from the grower) to packaging the bars in his Larimer Street factory. |
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"My hero here is Steve DeVries, a self-taught obsessive who's making chocolate from bean to bar.
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"Early on, in fact, Steve had a foretaste of his theory in action. Following his nose and asking the right questions, he found an aging Mexican woman growing criollo beans at a small plantation in Tabasco. Hers was one of those juicy family stories, with crossed love affairs, mysterious deaths, and intrigue among the trees..." |