In February 2009, our founder, TammyJo Eckhart, PhD, wrote and published the first post on The Chocolate Cult. She tentatively reached out to companies after a few months, and soon we had chocolates from around the United States to test and write about. As the years went by we expanded our reach into 194 countries with products from six of the seven continents. We have featured products from 282 brands, companies, and individuals. If it is about chocolate or made from any part of the cocoa bean or cocoa tree, we will cover it. If it is a product that can be used to enjoy or make chocolate goodies with, we will cover it. If it is research about any aspect of chocolate in culture, we want to share it.
Using a standardized procedure, we test each food or beverage we are sent; then describe this in a full-sensory fashion that was unique to us when this blog was created. We have a volunteer group of experts in various common additives to chocolate (coconut, alcohol, coffee, tea) that help us be as objective as possible. Each volunteer adheres to the standard procedure. Products that are not stand-alone beverages or food are tested and described based on ease of use, fulfilling their claims, educational value, use of evidence, or entertainment value, depending on the item.
Now to mark our 10th year of articles we are declaring February 1, 2018 through January 31, 2019 as our Year-Long Celebration of The Chocolate Cult.
We will be reaching out to the companies and brands that were brave enough to send us products to test and write about during our first two years of publishing. We welcome other brands that have more recently allowed us to reveal their creations to the world to contact us and get their products featured. We will still welcome newcomers to the chocolate industry as well as new-to-us companies during this year-long celebration. Please contact us using our founder's address "thetammyjo" via gmail.
A special acknowledgement and thank you to Seattle Chocolates which not only sent us products to test and write about in 2009 but has continued to do so throughout the entire decade of our publication.
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My immediate goal is to get into contact with the companies that partnered with us that first year before the start of February.
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