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Valentine's Day Collection
Celebrate sweetness this Valentine's Day, in all its forms.
In collaboration with Mirror in the Woods, a one-of-a-kind tea house in Gowanus, Brooklyn, we're thrilled to host an intimate evening of chocolate tasting, cacao tea, and live ambient music.
Only 20 seats available; first-come first-served.
• Interactive & self-guided single-origin chocolate tasting, spanning four cacao origins
• 100% allergen-free tasting menu
• Craft cacao tea pairing + optional tea-infused sake pairings*
• Live piano accompaniment by slowcocoa co-founder Kobi Goodwin
• Personalized mindful tasting guide & chocolate souvenir to bring the experience home
*sake available for additional purchase
Address: 575 Union St., Brooklyn, NY 11215.
With 20 seats only, tickets are available first-come first-served, on a sliding scale.
To preserve the intimacy of the space, all guests are asked to remove shoes upon entry. (Shoe covers available.)
Seating is primarily on floor cushions, with a few chairs available for those who request.
All chocolate tasting menu items are 100% vegan, gluten-free & allergen-free.
If you or someone in your party has any accessibility needs, please contact us before purchasing a ticket by emailing events@slowcocoa.com. We are committed to expanding access however possible.
In an effort to increase access, we've designed ticket pricing on a sliding scale. Limited subsidized tickets ($55) are available by request. Please email events@slowcocoa.com.
If you would like to contribute additional funds beyond your selected ticket price, we warmly welcome tips at checkout. Your support enables us to continue offering subsidized access to upcoming events & product offerings.
Consider purchasing a Sweeter ticket (upper end of the scale) if many of the following are true:
- you earn a high income relative to your area’s average income
- you have high earning power (even if not exercising it today)
- you live fully, mostly, or partially off unearned / gifted income
- you or your family have significant assets, such as a house and/or investments
- you have a degree without having had loans
- someone else paid or pays toward your rent/mortgage
Consider purchasing a Supporter or General ticket (mid-scale) if many of the following are true:
- you earn a middle income relative to your area’s average income
- you choose to go out to eat or drink weekly (or more)
- you're able to cover basic needs regularly
- you're able-bodied
- you have or had student loans, and most people in your family have higher education
- you or my family have assets, such as a house and/or retirement accounts
Consider requesting a Subsidized ticket (lower end of the scale) if many of the following are true:
- you're sick or disabled and that impacts your ability to work / earn money
- your race, ethnicity, skin color or gender severely impacts your income
- you have non-optional health care costs to cover
- you are struggling to pay more than minimums on debt
- you have student loans and were among the first in your family to go to college
- your income directly supports you and others
- you or your family have few or no assets, such as a home or retirement accounts
- you have no family or access to family
NEW Release
The world's first-ever almond bark to offer equal dog and cat representation.
Not safe for dogs or cats equally (nor anyone with almond allergies)...
More for the rest of us 😋
If you navigate to the Wikipedia entry for almond bark, at the time of this writing, the provided definition is - in our professional opinion - bizarre. The editors state:
Almond bark (also known as vanilla flavored candy coating) is a chocolate-like confection made with vegetable fats instead of cocoa butter and with coloring and flavors added.
And that is, to make matters further candy-coated, only the first sentence.
Suffice it to say, we do not make "almond bark" in the Wikipedia tradition. So we've renamed it.
Our "almond bark/meow", like all our base recipes, features slowcocoa’s maximum allowable four ingredients only, plus the decadent drizzle of Himalayan pink salt.
That's it.
Wow, we can hear the barking already. (Meow to that!)
68% Puerto Rico dark chocolate (organic single-origin cacao, organic coconut sugar, organic cacao butter), organic almonds, organic Puerto Rican-origin cacao nibs, Himalayan pink salt.
Contains almonds.
Made in a fully vegan facility powered by 100% renewable wind energy.
Learn more about our Puerto Rican-origin cacao from our sourcing partners at Uncommon Cacao.
Through thick and thick, warm and cold, frigid to frantic, restless to listless, hopeful to cup-full. . . tea is there for us.
Now chocolate is here, too, with tea.
More specifically, the chocolate is the tea.
Made from a house-blend of freshly & delicately-roasted husks from our single-origin Haitian and Guatemalan cacao beans, chocolate tea is unlike any other beverage in our teabag-box basket. (Don't know about you, but we love a basket brimming with teaboxes.)
It shares a consistency with other herbal teas, so is not to be confused with the more familiar beverage of eternal youth and holiday cheer that goes by the deceptively similar descriptor, "hot chocolate".
Chocolate tea is hot, all right; it is hot and it is chocolate. But hot chocolate it is not.
It's light and airy, naturally sweet and rustic, with a deep, chocolatey aroma that lifts our spirit any time of day. Its sips and smells are calming, even as they remind us that energy is sometimes a choice as much as a daily inheritance from the sun, snow, clouds, snacks and sips that surround us.
We like to sip slowly, yes; and also breathe in deeply – there is something healing in these husks.
Lovingly packaged in fully compostable resealable pouches. Each bag prepares 16-20 servings, pending the strength of your brew. Tea is low-caffeine and high-theobromine: a combination often reported by fans to bring a calm, focus-boosting effect ripe for gratitude.
Single-origin, organic Dominican cacao husks.
Roasted in-house using 100% wind energy.
