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"Hi Cyrus, I'm sorry I missed this, I was at the Salon du Chocolat last week and would have been pleased to meet you. I see that Vietnam is on your itinerary, please feel free to contact us, we are running the first bean-to-bar chocolate maker…"

"In Vietnam the farmers we buy from get paid London market price at the farm from the big bulk buyers. They get daily text messages on their mobile phones indicating the day's market price from the local Armajaro buyer and from the local Cargill…"

"Good question. Being back in my hometown in Gascony, watching the October sun set on the yellow-leafed vines that were harvested last month, and that were already planted around here by the Romans 2000 years ago, I guess the obvious notion of…"

"On the same topic you may also want to check the short but well written opinion piece…"

"Hi all, I was wondering if any of you have an opinion about foil vs. paper-backed foil vs. plastified foil and how you can certify the food-grade quality of your wrapping. Thanks, Samuel  "

"We see a lot of UTZ cacao in Vietnam (in fact most of our current chocolate line comes from UTZ cacao), but because the certification is either unknown or associated to huge industrial actors (Mars, Cargill...) we haven't bothered indicating…"

"Nat, many thanks for posting this, I devoured it, it's a very nice piece of academic research, I'll be in touch with Vanh."