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WSJ Opinion
A Tariff Meltdown for American Chocolate Makers - April, 2025
- Oompa Loompa doompadee-do, we’ve got a tariff puzzle for you: President Trump seems to think border taxes are a Willy Wonka golden ticket for the U.S. economy. But what does it do to America’s artisan chocolate businesses when huge duties raise the cost of cacao, an ingredient that only grows some 20 degrees above and below the equator... Read Full Article
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Wall Street Journal
A Tariff Meltdown for Chocolate Makers - April, 2025
- O ompa Loompa doompadee-do, we’ve got a tariff puzzle for you: President Trump seems to think border taxes are a Willy Wonka golden ticket for the U.S. economy. But what does it do to America’s artisan chocolate businesses when huge duties raise the cost of cacao, an ingredient that only grows some 20 degrees above and below the equator... Read Full Article
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Bloomberg Pursuits
This Year, the Best Valentine’s Day Chocolates Come in Bars - January, 2025
- Anyone that’s scrolled though social media channels in the last year will have caught influencers breaking into hefty blue-and-yellow-splattered milk chocolate bars packed with gooey neon green pistachio-tahini paste mixed with crispy kataifi (a finely shredded type of phyllo, popular in Middle Eastern sweets)... Read Full Article
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edibleMANHATTAN
The Award Winning Chocolate Brand You Need To Try - December, 2023
- When I sat down with Graham last month to discuss Fruition’s story, I did not expect to leave feeling moved by her devotion to the craft. Read Full Article
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Eater
Barrel-Aging Has Come for Chocolate - June, 2023
- My very first foray into barrel-aged chocolate began in Quito, Ecuador with a square of To’ak’s Islay Whisky Cask Aged. I instantly noticed how... Read Full Article
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Bon Appetite
My Favorite Chocolate Bar Is Milk Chocolate, and I Will Not Be Shamed - March, 2021
- While a lot of milk chocolate just so happens to be poor quality, milk chocolate itself is not the problem. The zeitgeist tells us that we “should” prefer dark chocolate... Read Full Article
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Dating News
Gourmet Sweets to Help Couples Celebrate Their Relationships - March, 2021
- Fruition Chocolate Works confections have become such a popular choice for relationship celebrations because of the careful production process. Its sweets are so tasty because... Read Full Article
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Bon Appetite
What It's Like to Be a Professional Chocolate Taster - December, 2015
- The United States of Chocolate Where can Bernardini find that elusive perfect chocolate? On U.S. soil, it turns out. He loves Fruition based out of Shokan, New York, as well as Massachusetts-based Rogue Chocolatier and Missouri-based Patric Chocolate... Read Full Article
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The New York Times
A Taste Test of Chocolate Bars Made From Scratch - December, 2015
- In a blind tasting of 14 bean-to-bar chocolates made in the United States, these were the most impressive...7.Fruition. 76 percent Marañón from Peru. Like a frothy, rich cup of espresso with a stripe of lemon peel, this is an... Read Full Article
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Zagat
8 Bean-to-Bar Chocolate Makers to Know - January, 2017
- Bean-to-bar chocolate is having a moment: In 2005 there were only a handful of makers in the U.S., and now there are around 200. What exactly is bean-to-bar chocolate, or craft chocolate, as it’s often called? Unlike chocolatiers, who use premade chocolate that they melt and turn into truffles... Read Full Article
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Saveur
The World's Best White Chocolates Deserve Your Respect - December, 2016
- No ingredient in the pastry pantry garners more controversy and snobbery than white chocolate. And fair enough: At its worst, it’s a cloying throwback to the waxy hollow rabbits of Easters past and the ‘90s cookies-’n-cream craze, but even at its best, this confection is rarely afforded the status... Read Full Article
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Chocolate Connoisseur
In Focus - April, 2020
- Fruition Chocolate Works. Here, just southwest of Woodstock (where Fruiton also runs a chocolate boutique), is where you’ll begin your chocolate adventure today, as we explore the evolution of Fruition Chocolate via yet another chocolate super couple — Bryan and Dahlia Graham.... Read Full Article
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The Slow Melt
MS 9: FRUITION CHOCOLATE - October, 2018
- Fruition Chocolate won the gold medal for “Best in Competition” at the 2016 International Chocolate Awards. In this episode, Bryan tells us about his pastry chef training, the story behind the Corazon de Dahlia bar and how the proceeds help children in Peru, and about recreating flavors in chocolate that he loved in his youth... Read Full Article
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Chocolate Fascination
Interview Episode 11 – Bryan Graham of Fruition Chocolate - October, 2018
- Bryan Graham and his wife Dahlia started Fruition Chocolate amidst a fascination with the mystique and magnetism of chocolate making drawing them in. Over the years, they have sourced great cacao and experimented with new approaches to single origin chocolate, inclusions, and confections... Read Full Article
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Washington Post
For those who think white chocolate isn’t ‘real’ chocolate, have we got bars for you - November, 2017
- A cocoa bean is made up of roughly equal parts cocoa butter and cacao nibs. Cocoa butter is what gives chocolate its rich mouthfeel, and the nibs hold most of the distinctive smell and taste... Read Full Article
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Chronogram
6 Hudson Valley Chocolatiers to Sweeten Your Valentine's Day - February, 2019
- While cacao may not grow on the slopes of our verdant valley, when it comes to the chocolate, Hudson Valley artisans pursue their craft with a passion. Here, then, are some terrific local chocolate shops to get your sweetie some sweets for Valentine’s Day... Read Full Article
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Sierra Club
Taste Test: To Save Cacao, Eat Craft Chocolate - October, 2018
- To get a taste of what this maker has to offer, dig into the creamy richness of brown butter milk chocolate, embrace the purity of the 100% bar (no sugar in this one!), or go for something in between with the Hispaniola Dark. Beyond the bars, Fruition’s pecans with maple cinnamon milk chocolate make for the perfect gift or after-dinner treat... Read Full Article
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USA Today
These are the favorite chocolates of the best chocolate makers in the world - February, 2019
- Rounding out our list are two perennial ICA award-winners who won plaudits for their milk chocolate bars in this year's competition and both started their bean-to-bar careers as chefs: Bryan Graham of Fruition Chocolate from upstate New York and Danish maker Mikkel Friis-Holm of Friis-Holm.... Read Full Article
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Goop
The Good For You Chocolate Guide - February, 2017
- Some headlines are too good to be true. But as SF Bay-based weight loss, hormone, and women’s health expert Dr. Sara Gottfried (her new book, Younger, is out this month) verifies: Chocolate is good for you. The health benefits of dark chocolate are widely varied and impressive... Read Full Article
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INSIDER
A Shop in NY's Catskill Mountains Makes Chocolate From Scratch - February, 2017
- Fruition makes award-winning chocolate in NY's Catskill Mountains. The whole process is as enjoyable to watch as it is to eat chocolate... Read Full Article
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The Kitchn
Spoonful for the Pantry: Fruition Chocolate - February, 2017
- Whether you're buying these for your valentine or keeping them for yourself, here are five chocolatey treats we're currently crushing on. (They're a million times more special than those cheesy heart-shaped boxes you'd usually pick up last-minute at the drug store... Read Full Article
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Wine Enthusiast
Chocolate & Spirits Pairings to Set the Heart Aflutter: Hudson Valley Bourbon Bar - January, 2017
- Chocolates and Valentine’s Day go together like, well, chocolates and Port. And while that’s a tried-and true pairing, higher-octane spirits can also provide a fantastic backdrop to let chocolate shine. According to Megan Giller, author of a forthcoming book about American chocolate... Read Full Article
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Men's Health
5 Most Delicious Hot Chocolates on the Planet - December, 2016
- Let’s face it: Powdered hot cocoa mix tastes more like chalk than chocolate. Fortunately, there are a host of small companies around the country making high-quality drinking chocolate. These hot chocolates are often called “drinking chocolate” because they’re... Read Full Article
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Seth Godin Blog
A Dark Chocolate Sampler - October, 2016
- Bean to bar dark chocolate is a revelation. It's got the terroir and backstory of the finest wines, it's a collision of rural farmers and modern technology and markets similar to coffee, and it also brings along the Proustian nostalgia of childhood... Read Full Article
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Bloomberg Pursuits
National Chocolate Day: 8 cities with irresistible chocolatiers - October, 2016
- Today, there are so many high-quality chocolate producers around the world that pinpointing the best can be like finding an M&M in a confetti pit. So why not listen to the people who work with the stuff every day? In honor of National Chocolate Day in the U.S.—Oct. 28, although shouldn't... Read Full Article
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Orbitz Travel Blog
National Chocolate Day: 8 cities with irresistible chocolatiers - October, 2016
- There’s farm to table, and then there’s bean to bar. In honor of National Chocolate Day on Oct. 28, visit one of America’s best chocolate companies and take home a sweet souvenir... Read Full Article
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International Business Times
Best Chocolate In The World 2016: New York Chocolatier Takes Home Top Prize At International Chocolate Awards - October, 2016
- We all have our opinions on our favorite chocolate, but one New York chocolatier can now claim to officially have the world’s best milk chocolate bar. At the International Chocolate Awards held in London last week, Bryan Graham’s Fruition Chocolate, a small workshop in the Catskill... Read Full Article
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So Good Magazine
Bonnat Chocolatier and Fruition stand out in the International Chocolate Awards - October, 2016
- The long list of winners of the International Chocolate Awards was revealed last Friday, 14 October in London within the framework of The Chocolate Show... Read Full Article
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InStyle
5 Amazing Chocolate Companies You Need to Know Now - July, 2016
- Bryan is a former pastry chef, and I think that extra training really gives him a great background in his chocolate making,” says Leaf. “The quality of the beans, the resources, the integrity, the care, the flavor—it’s just a fantastic company... Read Full Article
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Chocolate Noise
Fruition Chocolate: All About the Flavor - February, 2016
- Bryan Graham makes milk chocolate. And white chocolate. He uses vanilla. He even makes truffles and dark-chocolate-coated, jalapeño-dusted corn nuts. CORN NUTS. In other words, Bryan Graham isn’t like most craft chocolate makers, who focus on two-ingredient, single-origin dark bars... Read Full Article
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Grub Street
11 Truly Acclaimed Chocolate Producers That Aren’t Mast Brothers - December, 2015
- Grub spoke with some experts — including Mark Christian, of the exhaustive and authoritative chocolate site C-Spot — to find out which fine chocolates truly justify their prices. Fruition Chocolate. What to Get: Brown-Butter Milk Chocolate. Why: Milk chocolate doesn't get as... Read Full Article
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Upstater
Fruition: Stickin’ It to Big Chocolate in the Catskills - December, 2015
- Grub Street’s pick from the Fruition tree of chocolate delights? The Brown Butter Milk Chocolate bar, made from Ronnybrook Farm Dairy butter, located in Columbia County right here in the Hudson Valley. Need a chocolate fix? Skip the Hershey’s (and the Mast Brothers) and stick... Read Full Article
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Food & Wine
6 New Party Essentials - November, 2015
- Bring your next cocktail-party to another level with these six great additions, from cured salami to rock-candy-infused rye...CORN NUTS Dark-chocolate-coated corn nuts are a sweet and savory cocktail snack... Read Full Article
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Edible Hudson Valley
You Got Chocolate in my Pumpkin - October, 2015
- There’s such a bounty of great artisanal food producers here,” says Bryan Graham, who, with his wife and business partner, Dahlia Rissman Graham, owns Fruition Chocolate. Their award-winning small-batch bean-to bar-chocolate is a bit of a paradox: The cacao beans are sourced from... Read Full Article
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Hudson Valley Hullaballoo
Vendor Feature: Fruition Chocolate - October, 2015
- Bryan begins by slowly roasting and stone-grinding hand-selected organic, fair trade cocoa beans to create an end product that’s not only some of the best chocolate you’ve ever tasted, but also incredibly gorgeous to look at. This winning combination makes their chocolates some of the... Read Full Article
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Hudson Valley Magazine
Fruition Chocolate Offers Unique Bean-to-Bar Operation: The Ulster County-based confectionery raises the (chocolate) bar - April, 2015
- In 2011, after six months of scouting possible locations across the country, Graham and his wife and business partner, Dahlia Rissman Graham, a Woodstock native, landed in her parents’ guest cottage. A few months later, they opened Fruition Chocolate in a 1500-square-foot shop on Route 28 in Shokan... Read Full Article
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The Wall Street Journal
Stone-Ground Chocolate Gets Hate Mail and Lots of Love - January, 2015
- Craft chocolatiers are using ancient techniques of the Aztecs and Mayans to create a dairy-free, low-fat product with a consistency a bit like crunchy dirt. Some chocolate lovers can’t seem to get enough of it. This type of chocolate, sometimes called Mexican-style ... Read Full Article
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Daily Freeman
Fruition Chocolate in Shokan gets ready for the season - December, 2014
- So much chocolate. So little time. Such is life right about now for Bryan Graham, who is in the thick of a chocolate-making frenzy. It’s the gift-buying season when the demand for the Shokan businessman’s luxury products escalates, and his 1,500-square-foot ... Read Full Article
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Serious Eats
The Rise of Awesome Milk Chocolate - November, 2014
- White wine, light roast coffee, and milk chocolate walk into a bar. There's no punch line here; just three underappreciated edibles commiserating about their feelings of inadequacy. You see, somewhere along the way, our culture dismissed milk chocolate as kid's stuff ... Read Full Article
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Bloomberg Radio
Radio segment by Carole Zimmer - September, 2014
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Organic Hudson Valley
Fruition Chocolate Works - February, 2014
- For my trip to Fruition Chocolate Works, found along Route 28 in Shokan, I brought the whole family along. My little girls were eager to experience a chocolate tasting too, and they reminded me that it's only fair to share the fair trade, organic chocolates with ... Read Full Article
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Epoch Times
For Valentine’s Day, Try Small-Batch Artisan Chocolate - February, 2014
- Psst. If you want to impress the chocoholic love in your life this Valentine’s Day, forget the expensively marketed, beautiful boxes of so-so chocolate with plastic aftertaste. Small-batch chocolate is where you can give them their little piece of heaven ... Read Full Article
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Usa Today
The Emerging World of Small Batch Chocolate - February, 2014
- According to Bryan Graham of Fruition Chocolate in Shokan, N.Y., "Everyone seems to have a differing opinion on what it actually implies. I think we could all agree that a lot of care and pride goes into sourcing high quality ... Read Full Article
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Dessert Professional
Dessert Professional Top 10 Chocolatier 2013 - December, 2013
- Dessert Professional magazine is proud to announce the recipients of our annual Top Ten Chocolatiers in North America awards. The fine chocolate industry here continues to evolve, and the chocolatiers in North America are among the finest in the world. Read Full Article
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Oprah Magazine
Westwind Orchard and Fruition Chocolate Bar - October, 2013
- Raising the Bar A virtuous way to eat candy: Westwind Orchard and Fruition Chocolate have joined forces to create treats with farm-fresh raspberries, pumpkin seeds and fair-trade cocoa beans, all organically grown ... Read More
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Everyday with Rachel Ray
Road Trips for Food Lovers - June, 2013
- Bryan Graham is one of a handful in the U.S. who roast, grind, and liquefy their own beans. To see how good the bean-to-bar movement can taste, try his chocolate-coated toasted almonds with smoked sea salt ... Read More
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The Valley Table
- Raising the Chocolate Bar
- June, 2013
- The aroma of chocolate perfumes is the air of the Fruition Chocolate shop. Machinery buzzes in the background as cocoa nibs are ground to a shiny paste. Gracious, soft spoken and chocolate-obsessed, owner Bryan Graham understands that the craft of chocolate making requires finesse. It's all in the details. Read Full Article
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New York Magazine
Candyland: Market Research - February 11, 2013
- This bean-tobar Catskills operation was founded by Bryan Graham, who began his career as a young assistant pie-baker in his grandmother's upstate kitchen ... Read More
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Ulster Magazine
- The Fine Art of Chocolate Making
- January/February 2013
- Few people, if anyone, spend more time thinking about chocolate than Bryan Graham, chocolate maker and owner of Fruition Chocolate in Shokan ... Read More on Page 11
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Woodstock Times
- Beans to Bar Fruition Chocolate Works Celebrates Its Anniversary
- November 10, 2012
- [Bryan] lets us try three new concoctions. One, a raspberry and almond praline confection in a chocolate shell, is his version of the pb&j experience, upgraded for sophisticated palates... Read More
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Edible Hudson Valley
- Come to Fruition: About as Local as Hudson Valley Chocolate Can Be
- Summer 2012
- Depending on whim, graham might assemble a highly elegant dark-chocolate egg painted to resemble a mid-century Abstract Expressionistic work ... Read More on Page 10
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Chronogram
- Heart-Shaped Box: For the Love of Chocolate
- January 1, 2012
- Consistent effects require solid knowledge and control. To achieve that control, Graham takes a complete DIY approach: He’s one of a handful of artisans that makes his own chocolate, bean to bar, entirely in his workspace ... Read More
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Wired
- The Science and Art of Chocolate Making
- December 19, 2011
- The flexibility of chocolate is what I love most about it. It can be incredibly satisfying to simply taste a little piece of great, unadulterated chocolate and let the flavors wash over your palate ... Read More
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C-spot: The Source for Premium Chocolate Information and Reviews
- Boxed Chocolate Review: Fruition
- December 15, 2011
- A startup with pedigree & chops to start... from an exec pastry chef, ex Bear Café near Woodstock, NY... Fruition reps the new breed of bean-to-box (& the bombones within) which, come to think of it ... Read More
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C-spot: The Source for Premium Chocolate Information and Reviews
- Bar Chocolate Review: Dark Milk by Fruition
- December 15, 2011
- The barsmith here, Bryan Graham, is perched aloft the details in full fruition on this one. A chocolate that picks the whole day up & throws it into one of those sub-orbital trajectories ... Read More
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Cooking by the Book: Suzi’s Blog
- A Chocoholic Haven in the Catskills
- December 13, 2011
- Fruition was founded by Bryan Graham, a native of the area, experienced pastry chef, and graduate of the CIA...Bryan is enthusiastic, professional, and creative...[The Classic Milk Chocolate] ... Read More
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Cooking with Books
- Fruition Chocolate Works
- October 28, 2011
- Bryan's passion for chocolate has always been a part of him and now it can be a part of you!...The bars came wrapped in a rustic twine ribbon and each bar is wrapped in both a gorgeously thick paper printed with their unique design, and the bar itself is sealed in a ... Read More