MayHawk Insights Library

  • MayHawk Insights 04 | Lab-Grown Chocolate

    MayHawk Insights 04 Laboratory Chocolate and the Future of the Cacao Belt “It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.” — Voltaire Something is growing in a laboratory in Birmingham, UK. Also in Sacramento. The implications for the…

  • MayHawk Insights 03 | Cacao Genetics

    MayHawk Insights 03 Criollo, Forastero, Trinitario. The Genetics of Fine Chocolate. “This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.” — Samuel Johnson, 1778 How Cacao Genetics Shaped the Craft Chocolate Industry To…

  • MayHawk Insights 02 | The Cocoa Tree

    MayHawk Insights 02 Theobroma Cacao — The Tree at the Beginning of Every Bar “All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle.” — Sybille Bedford Theobroma Cacao…

  • MayHawk Insights 01 | History of the Chocolate Bar

    MayHawk Insights 01 The Invention of the Chocolate Bar Chocolate? Make it like a brick. “Even a brick wants to be something… It aspires. Even a common, ordinary brick… wants to be something more than it is.” — Louis Kahn.…

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