The Food of the God's

This past weekend a friend and I were doing a little exploring in Brooklyn. After eating some delicious BBQ,we decided to do some galavanting through the streets. Which is when we stumbled into these gent's shop.

                                 The Mast Brothers from The Scout on Vimeo.

The chocolate gods must have blessed us because we were able to sample a half dozen their decadent chocolates free of any charge.

(photo credit: Ilana Pulda) 

I have an incredible amount of respect for these two gentlemen, and everyone who works with them throughout the process of creating their fantastic chocolates. These guys do it right. The Mast Brother's purchase only the highest quality coco beans in the world, from coco farmers in countries such as the Dominican Republic and Madagascar. Which they in turn transport to Brooklyn to use in each and every of their unique, 100% additive free, hand made chocolates.

(photo credit: Ilana Pulda)

A personalized craft, Rick and Michael Mast are not into mass producing millions of candy bars. Instead they sacrifice time, and I'm sure profits, to make a product incomparable to most. In the video above they share how the ancient Central and South American peoples used coco beans as a form of currency, and believed the coco bean to be the food of the god's. From my personal experience the Mast brother's chocolates are the most heavenly tasting sweets I've ever encountered. I'm sure if the Aztecs were around still they would agree too. Which is why if the opportunity presents itself you should definitely make a point to try their phenomenal artisan chocolates.