20180129 - LCJ Puna Chocolate steps up production (hrb)

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media A chocolate bar menu sits in the window of the new Puna Chocolate Co. store on Main Street in Wauconda.(1/29/18)

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media The new Puna Chocolate Co. on Main Street in Wauconda.Puna grows their own cocoa beans on the Big Island of Hawaii and roasts them in the store. (1/29/18)

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Organic peanut butter milk chocolate bars made with fifty percent cocoa sit on a tray waiting to be packaged at the Puna Chocolate Co. on Main Street in Wauconda.(1/29/18)

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media A shelf full of farm-to-bar chocolate bars made with one-hundred percent Hawaiian cacao were for sale at the Puna Chocolate Co. on Main Street in Wauconda.(1/29/18)

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media A cocoa pod sits on a barrel of cocoa beans to show where chocolate comes from was on display at the Puna Chocolate Co. on Main Street in Wauconda.(1/29/18)

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Chocolate heart lollipops were on display for Valentine's Day at the Puna Chocolate Co. on Main Street in Wauconda. A wooden geographic puzzle of the Big Island of Hawaii sat in the background highlighting where the Puna Chocolate Co. grows their cocoa beans.(1/29/18)

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Teri Potter, chocolate maker, roasts Hawaiian cocoa beans at the Puna Chocolate Co. on Main Street in Wauconda. The cocoa from this process will be turned into different cocoa products including organic farm-to-bar chocolate bars she sells in the store. (1/29/18)

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Teri Potter, chocolate maker, checks on the Hawaiian cocoa beans she was roasting at the Puna Chocolate Co. on Main Street in Wauconda.The beans will be turned into different cocoa products she sells in the store including chocolate bars.(1/29/18)

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Teri Potter, chocolate maker, holds up a handful of shelled roasted cocoa beans grown on the Big Island of Hawaii she just roasted at the Puna Chocolate Co. on Main Street in Wauconda.(1/29/18)

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Teri Potter, chocolate maker, holds up a handful of chocolate bars made with seventy-percent Hawaiian cacao she sells at the Puna Chocolate Co. on Main Street in Wauconda.(1/29/18)

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Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Teri Potter, chocolate maker, holds up some farm-to-bar chocolate bars made with seventy-percent Hawaiian cacao she sells at the Puna Chocolate Co. on Main Street in Wauconda.(1/29/18)