Denise Castronovo proudly leads the pack of solo female chocolate makers. She was as an ecologist and preservationist before she became a chocolate maker, but after a successful career, she decided to approach protection of the environment from a far tastier perspective.

Extremely talented and perhaps just a little bit lucky, her first batch of chocolate turned out absolutely delicious, and that kept her motivated to make more.

For Denise, making bean-to-bar craft chocolate is a way to improve lives and livelihoods of indigenous people. She insists on protecting the rainforests by supporting natural utilization of the land. All of the cacao beans she uses to make her luscious bars and treats either grow naturally in the wild or come from small, family-owned farms where cacao just happens to be one of their crops.  

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