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Wow! What a blast to speak to an amazing audience at @nwchocolate on *Delicious Ethics: What's in Your Chocolate, Who Grew Your Cacao!* We read labels of craft chocolate and commercial chocolate bars, (the latter are worse than you think), we broke it down, we lifted up, we learned, laughed, and ate fabulous chocolate! ••• Big thanks to awesome @bixbychocolate @chocolatenaive @dicktaylorchocolate @goodkingcacao @markhamandfitzchoc @omnomchocolate @raakachocolate and @sirenechocolate for chocolate and cacao to add exquisite flavor, positive examples of ethical chocolate, and overall oomph to our high-energy morning! ••• I posted my presentation materials to my blog at www.chocolateuplift.com in case you'd like to take a look. Onward and upward! #chocolatefreedomproject #sweetspeaker #seattlenovember2018 (at The Northwest Chocolate Festival) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqP76D2hokI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=j0hzzwizfm2k

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Hello from sweet sunny (!) Seattle, for the @nwchocolate festival! #sweetspeaker #chocolatetravel (at Seattle, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqDCFJphcpT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=14eu94sajl3zr

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Ethics matter: Need a lift? The awesome group Culinary Historians of Chicago just uploaded the podcast of the upbeat chocolate- and giggle-filled talk I gave for them last fall, and it's on my blog at www.chocolateuplift.com! 💜 My talk was called "From Cacao to Craft Chocolate: Stories from the Past, Sustainability for the Future." Among the brands I brought for the audience to sample that day were @pumpstreetchocolate and @violetskychocolate; feel free to grab some and savor while listening, and if you can count how many times I giggle during this talk, please let me know! :) #sweetspeaker

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I asked about @flourhouse's tasty toast, and it is! 💛 So are the chocolate toffee biscotti, chocolate chip toffee cookies, and spinach scones at this delightful from-scratch bakery and reading room! I didn't have all these treats at once, just most of them! 😄 What a joy to explore adorable Princeton, Illinois, after speaking to the awesome @visitprincetonil Women in Business group - previous post! #sweetspeaker #enjoyillinois #midwestmoment (at Flour House Bakery)

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Lavish + simple: lively lunch for 350 at the spectacular Palazzo Colonna, owned by the Colonna family for 450 years, plus a private tour of the incredible gardens, as part of the Harvard Law School Association of Europe annual reunion in Rome! 💚 The simple chocolate cake was light and delicious, befitting both its elegant palace setting as well as the down-to-earth Italian atmosphere! #harvardalumni #sweetspeaker #EuropeAprilMay2018 (at Palazzo Colonna)

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This is what was left of delicious @dicktaylorchocolate after a fun talk yesterday! #sweetspeaker (at Chicago, Illinois)

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I had a blast giving a talk and tasting today to a super fun #AARP group, on Chocolate Benefits for Body, Mind, and Soul (magnesium! metabolism! mood! meditation! more!), and then popping by delightfully decorated new #maisonmarcel nearby afterward, where I tasted the lovely chocolate almond croissant - swipe for the bakery, more from the talk later! #sweetspeaker #lusciouslakeview #sweethomechicago (at Maison Marcel Chicago)

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I'm excited to speak at the #nwchocolatefestival in sweet Seattle next month, on *Eat Chocolate, Be Fit: Chocolate Wellness,* and here's that time last year at the festival when I took a picture of #seattledessertgeek's picture of #harpermacaw chocolate! 📷 #sweetspeaker