On this week's episode, Oliver does a live-on-Skype chocolate tasting with us - turns out we've been eating chocolate wrong our entire lives! He tells us what the heck a Cacao Ceremony is, and takes us through his incredibly interesting life from working with a shrimp pirate in Belize, working with the World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF) to learn how to grow and process cacao, to starting a chocolate company of his own in his hometown of Troy, NY. It's a roller coaster of a podcast, and Matt and Kevin get amped up on coffee-infused chocolate washed down with more coffee. Cheers!
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05:03 - Volunteering on cacao farms through WWOOF
11:00 - Shrimp pirate named Scarface
35:00 - Beginning of chocolate tasting
41:11 - Chocolate production
52:50 - Mexican Hot Chocolate
1:00:00 - Tasting Coffee vs. Tasting Chocolate
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Kevin's Jam: Firsthand Accounts by Johnny Booth
Matt's Jam: Sex & Food by Unknown Mortal Orchestra; Belleville by Pandrezz
Oliver's Jam: Björk
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