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CHOCOLATE DOOR

Can you taste the love between a human and a cacao tree?

Step through the Chocolate Door to experience chocolate with your whole body. This guided tasting awakens pleasure and bittersweet longing. Smell. See. Listen. Feel. Taste. Exhale. Explore cocoa flavors that carry stories of farmers, soil, and community forests. 

Inspired by sensory ethnography and Kiki’s Cocoa
For Families, Teens, Adults, Teams.

 

Bittersweet Pleasures

Ritual tasting opens the senses. Longing. Delight. Memory floods in. Chocolate holds us in a quiet, secret place, even when the world feels loud. What is your chocolate story? 

Kiki’s Dark Velvet Ganache Recipe

Cocoa is an open book. 
You can’t cheat on good chocolate. Every step requires diligent care. How do your relationships taste?

Cream softens edges.

It makes everything taste and feel better. It holds the dazzle. Why do you love chocolate so much? 

Dazzle is the extra. 

Color. Culture. Mystery. Inclusions and infusions invite new stories beyond the equator to contribute. What do you want to include in your life? What do you want to infuse your life with?

Bittersweet Grief

Imagine a world without chocolate. What boundaries protect what we hold dear? What boundaries need to melt so new tastes can emerge? 

Take Home

A chocolate tasting guide
A richer sensory vocabulary
A deeper connection to yourself and cacao ecosystems