Mission Chocolate Bar

Arcelia is a chocolate maker and owner of Mission Chocolate which produces the most awarded chocolate in Brazil and focuses on creating flavors in chocolate that don't exist and represent Brazilian gastronomy, history, culture and geography. She makes everything in small batches to maintain the highest quality. Arcelia has been working with chocolate for 20 years, first as a chocolatier with a store in Berkeley, California then a chocolate maker with Dandelion Chocolate in San Francisco, California, and finally started Mission Chocolate in 2013. She is also a chocolate consultant/teacher, and farmers daughter. She also travels through Latin America to work with cacao growers, chocolate makers, chocolatiers, and to teach indigenous women to make chocolate.