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Valerie's Original Chocolate Tours are back! Enjoy a guided walking and tasting tour of top chocolate and pastry shops!

Choose a public tour, or contact us for a private group tour.

  • Wednesdays 2 pm Geneva IL

  • Thursdays 2 pm Chicago Loop

  • Fridays 2 pm Chicago Gold Coast

  • Saturdays 2 pm Chicago Gold Coast

  • Sundays 2 pm Chicago Gold Coast

  • Coming soon... NYC, Beverly Hills

$50 per person, includes samples. Tickets and sign-up: paypal.me/chocolateuplift

Join yours truly, Valerie Beck, on trips to delicious destinations. We'll go behind the scenes with chocolate makers and chefs, and will enjoy cultural and culinary experiences to remember forever.

Upcoming trips:

  • San Francisco, January 2017, for the Fancy Food Show and more

  • Miami, February 2017, for the Fairchild Chocolate Festival and more

  • Paris, October 2017, for the Salon du Chocolat and more

 

Contact me with questions or for more details!

New: a monthly subscription of the finest artisan chocolate bars, or buy just one box, "one and done!"

 

Indulge yourself, or give a premium gift. Box contents will vary from month to month. Each box will include 4 artisan, soy-free chocolate bars, made from ethically and sustainably sourced cacao, curated by yours truly, Valerie Beck.

Bonus: your initial box will contain a gift of a friendship bracelet from me, purchased directly from a women's weaving collective in Ecuador, which employs women who are also engaged in cacao farming with their families. 

For every box sold, we will donate a meal to a children's rescue center in West Africa, CREER, that takes care of kids who escape the child labor cacao farms and reunites them with their families or finds them an adoptive family, while providing medical treatment and letting them become kids again. This initiative is part of my #chocolatefreedomproject.

 

Choose from the following subscriptions:

  • 1 box: $50

  • 4 boxes a year, quarterly: $48 per box

  • 12 boxes a year, monthly: $44 per box (save $72 a year)

 

Purchase on my subscription page; free shipping!

Thank you, and keep eating real chocolate!

Valerie's Chocolate Travel Club
Valerie's Original Chocolate Subscription Box

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Uplift Through Chocolate!

Purchase gift cards online in the amount of your choice, good for our craft chocolate subscription boxes or chocolate tours, and we will send the cards to you or your gift recipients, by email or regular mail. Give the experience of uplift through chocolate!

Gift Cards

Enjoy cocoa beans at home, for health benefits, and flavor!

Easy recipe ideas:

 

  • Remove the husk to remove bitterness.

  • Crumble 2 or 3 cocoa beans and sprinkle on oatmeal, yogurt, fruit salad, or other food for breafkast or anytime.

  • Blend into smoothies.

  • Bake into chocolate chip cookies.

  • Mix into trail mix with almonds, raisins, dried fruit.

  • Add anywhere you would add nuts.

 

$16/pound (around 100 cocoa beans per pound). Click to order via PayPal.

Raw Cacao
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