Sweet dreams: Seattle's Theo is a fair trade version of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.(Eating Right)

From: E | Date: November 1, 2007| Author: Motavalli, Jim | Copyright information

"Sweet dreams are made of this ..." It was pure coincidence that the 1983 Eurythmics hit was playing on the radio as the staff of Theo Chocolate readied the next 6,000-pound load of cocoa beans. Theo, based since March 2006 in the hip Seattle neighborhood of Fremont, is the first roaster of organic and fair trade-certified cocoa in the U.S., and the owners have found that making chocolate is an exact science without many established guidelines.

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