los angeles international chocolate salon: the chocolate traveler

i recently gave a poor review of the chocolate traveler's holiday dark chocolate. this review completely pained me since i remember the beginnings of my chocolate snob days of always carrying around a tin of chocolate traveler (70% dark chocolate) in my car. after tasting the holiday dark chocolate, i was worried about the quality.

i was a tad apprehensive to meet the chocolate traveler group... but i wanted to understand what was really going on with their chocolate. i met with jon alberon and he stated that the chocolate in the holiday tin was around 33% and that it was targeted to consumers who were not prepared for the higher cacao content.