The step-by-step process involves looking, smelling, breaking, tasting and tasting again the chocolate piece.

Everyone — Millennials included — wants to know what Millennials are thinking.

So it turns out, people have no idea what the word “natural” means. In fact, they pretty much assume it means “organic.”

Given my familial and cultural connections, I was thrilled to having been invited by Tomasz Kotas to see this family-run company’s manufacturing operations in Poland.

For those unfamiliar, ECRM events bring together candy manufacturers and confectionery buyers in a sort of speed dating format for the business world.

This is too important a project for our industry to let it go unfinished.

Perhaps you’re not into snack, energy or functional bars. After all, we’re supposed to be focused on all things confectionery. But in case you hadn’t noticed, the term “confectionery” now encompasses a greater band width than ever before.

The future is here people, and it is sweet — or at least minty fresh.

As artisans, chocolatiers should consider how they can disrupt the norm and entice consumers to experience chocolate and use chocolate in new ways.

It’s not what the industry expected. Not what people heavily committed to the cause expected.