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February 2019 – Is B.C. Losing Its Edge?

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FEBRUARY 2019 BCBUSINESS 65 6. Opened in 2013, East Van Roasters is a 16-seat café and social enterprise of the PHS Community Services Society that mentors and trains women re-entering the workforce. In Vancouver's Gastown, it also roasts cof- fee and cacao beans, making organic chocolate and coffee on-site. At the café and vari- ous B.C. shops and eateries 7. Beanpod Chocolate, owned by James and Mary Heavey in downtown Fernie, emphasizes old-fashioned quality and freshness over modern speed, taking five days to produce small batches using vintage machines, with no artificial ingredients or pre- servatives. At Fernie retail store and (bars only) online 8. A globetrotter with degrees in cell and molecular biology and economics who also studied finance, Taylor Kennedy has put down roots in Victoria. There he handcrafts small batches of ethically sourced chocolate, incorporating flavours (carda- mom, Mayan chili mix) from the same places as the beans, in the Sirene Chocolate workshop. At shops in Victoria, Nanaimo and Vancouver or online 9. Since 2013, pastry chef and chocolate maker Paul Dincer has opened two Koko Monk Chocolates shops, both in Vancouver's Kitsilano neighbourhood. Made from unprocessed cacao beans to preserve their personality, his chocolates incorporate unexpected combinations like blue cheese and candied pear; curry and coconut; and lavender, fig and chamomile. At Koko Monk Chocolates Lounge and Koko Monk Hot Chocolate Lounge, and online • 5 6 7 8 9 ORIGIN STORY Last October, an inter- national study funded by a UBC Hampton Fund Research Grant revealed new insights into the his- tory of chocolate. Cacao wasn't first domesticated in Mexico some 4,000 years ago, as previously thought, but in Ecuador at least 1,500 years earlier

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