Episode 2 with Estelle Tracy of 37 Chocolates. She is an author, blogger, and chocolate educator. In this podcast we'll discuss Estelle's foray into chocolate, packaging tips, consumer hurdles (price, ingredient knowledge), as well as the utilization of various social media outlets for your projects.

Well Tempered Podcast

Episode 2: Estelle Tracy

In this episode of Well Tempered, the first podcast dedicated to the stories of chocolate & cacao, Lauren speaks with Elaine Read (Xocolatl Small Batch Chocolate) and Amy Burns, two of the principle women from the upcoming documentary 'Setting the Bar: A Craft Chocolate Origin Story.' Topics include, their trip to the source in the Peruvian jungle, the state of preservation of fine cacao within small communities, and prolonging its existence through the American craft chocolate scene.

Episode 3: Amy Burns & Elaine Read

In this minisode, Lauren Heineck, host of the Well Tempered podcast and Founder/Chocolate Maker at WKND Chocolate, talks about her experience at the NW Unconference - a craft chocolate industry gathering occurring annually in Seattle, Washington. Disclosure: Opinions are entirely her own and she was not paid to attend the Unconference nor festival.

Minisode: 2016 NW Chocolate Unconference Takeaways & Ponderings

Episode 4 of the Well Tempered podcast features entrepreneur, business owner, and chocolate educator Karine Guillemette of Miss Choco, a craft chocolate website and distributor in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In this podcast we'll discuss origin trips to Madagascar and Peru, the reasons for shifting a retail storefront to an online business, as well as how the future of fine chocolate may feed off of the ritual and educational training of specialty coffee professionals.