Editor’s note •
Want to make your valentine melt?
Buy that special someone an artisan chocolate bar made in Utah.
The Wasatch Front has several companies that follow the “bean-to-bar” chocolate-making process. That means they ship cacao beans from some of the world’s best-growing regions think Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela then roast, grind and infuse their own flavors into the mostly dark-chocolate bars.
The process leaves out the refined sugars, artificial ingredients and preservatives often found in drugstore brands.
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Utah producers earned national attention a few years ago when Saveur magazine called the Wasatch Front the “country’s epicenter of chocolate innovation.” Editors compared the midsize region to larger, more well-known chocolate epicenters like Seattle, San Francisco and Portland.