Founders
Maricel Presilla
Americas Partner – James Beard Award-Winning Chef and Food Writer. Culinary Historian, Chocolate Expert and Founder of Gran Cacao Company.
Americas Partner – James Beard Award-Winning Chef and Food Writer. Culinary Historian, Chocolate Expert and Founder of Gran Cacao Company.
Judging Director – 30 years of tasting and understanding fine chocolate and cacao. Course Director and senior teacher at IICCT
Food writer, author of chocolate books, artist and freelance chocolate expert. UK
Founding member of the Manhattan Chocolate Society and senior Grand Juror. USA
Best dark origin bar overall winner from Japan using cacao from the Philippines
Interview with our 2021-22 Asia-Pacific Overall Milk Bar winner
‘Best dark origin bar’ overall winner of our 2021-22 European Bean-to-Bar Competition