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	<title>Rogue Chocolatier</title>
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	<description>Rogue Chocolatier is a small, true bean-to-bar chocolate manufacturer, located in Minneapolis, MN.</description>
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		<title>The New Factory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As usual, it&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve had a chance to write about Rogue Chocolatier and what we&#8217;ve been up to. Over the last year, we have been continually overwhelmed with the demand for our chocolate. It was taking me up to 70 hours of labor a week to produce 70 lbs of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The White Clones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, we headed to a project in a small area in a valley at the base of the Andes somewhere east of Piura. It was a long drive mostly along roads with large cobblestone sized rocks, around bends that make you grab for anything, and over bumps that knock you around like a pebble in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overnight at Don Francisco&#8217;s Farm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first day that we arrived in Piura, we had the opportunity to meet with the farmers association. Nobody else spoke a word of English, other than my current contact. My Spanish is poor at best. I did my best to introduce myself to the group. Next, they went around and introduced themselves. Only one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.roguechocolatier.com/news/overnight-at-don-franciscos-farm/</link>
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		<title>Rogue Chocolatier in Piura!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a few days in Ecuador, we are finally in Piura! The first day we got back here, we headed straight to the cooperative to do some cacao liquor tasting. As soon as we finished, I asked the managers if there was time to make it to Juan Tirado&#8217;s farm that day. They looked at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.roguechocolatier.com/news/rogue-chocolatier-in-piura/</link>
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		<title>Ecuador!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a few quick pictures. We&#8217;re in Ecuador for a few days trying to learn about Ecuadorian cacao and  the farming and post-harvest practices here. We spent about 8 hours driving yesterday from Guayaquil to a small buying station in Los Rios province. Our guide drove maniacally at between 90-100mph en route while swerving and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sambirano Bar Wins at the 2010 Good Food Awards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just returned from the Good Food Awards in San Francisco, CA. I am so pleased to announce that the Sambirano bar, made with cacao from a single family-owned estate in Madagascar, was a winner of the 2010 Good Food Awards! The bar was up against about 180 entries for the chocolate category alone. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.roguechocolatier.com/news/sambirano-bar-wins-at-the-2010-good-food-awards/</link>
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		<title>Piura Bar Makes Return Trip to Juan Tirado&#8217;s Farm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Piura bar has been a fantastic success. Everyone who has tried it has been amazed at how delicious the cacao underlying this bar tastes. It&#8217;s clean, mild, complex, and unique. It has received accolades and coverage in the local press from Metro Magazine and Minnesota Monthly. I feel bittersweet in announcing that we have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.roguechocolatier.com/news/piura-bar-makes-return-trip-to-juan-tirados-farm/</link>
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		<title>Growing Rogue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With continued growth in production, our tiny factory is bursting at the seams. For this we are not complaining, but needing to increase our space and purchase better machinery. I have finally sold a couple of antique machines that I had been hoping to rebuild for a few years. This has provided a small amount [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.roguechocolatier.com/news/growing-rogue/</link>
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		<title>Working with the Letterpress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some shots of myself working in the Letterpress shop, creating the packaging for the new Piura bar.]]></description>
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		<title>Scenes from Peru</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our new Piura Bar&#8217;s origin:]]></description>
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