Brooklyn Bean-To-Bar Chocolate Factories: In Pictures

Awesome Pics inside Chocolate Factories in Brooklyn!

In Brooklyn, a culture of refined chocolate making, using the finest cacao beans sourced directly from farmers in Central America, the Caribbean, and Africa, is on the rise. The last decade alone has seen the emergence of Williamsburg’s Mast Brothers Chocolate and Fine & Raw Chocolate, Boerum Hill’s Nunu Chocolate, Sunset Park’s Tumbador Chocolate, and more recently, Clinton Hill’s Raaka Virgin Chocolate and Red Hook’s Cacao Prieto.

Perhaps more than anything, chocolate is the food of love. Chocolate famously contains the hormone the brain produces when falling down the rabbit hole of love. This month, in honor of Valentine’s Day, photographer Valery Rizzo takes us on a tour inside the chocolate factories at Mast Brothers Chocolate, Cacao Prieto and Raaka Virgin Chocolate.

From Nona Brooklyn