Episode 704 of Weekends with Yankee: A Taste for the Good Life

Travel Throughout New England with Weekends with Yankee [Weekends with Yankee Logo]( [Hero-WWY-Video-Still]( Weekends with Yankee Episode 704: “A Taste for the Good Life” Top Boston chef Tiffani Faison shows Amy around some of her restaurants and whips up a signature gnocchi dish. Richard enjoys outdoor adventure at a luxury Rhode Island sporting retreat. In Maine, see what goes into making Ragged Coast Chocolates’ award-winning confections. [WATCH NOW]( [Best New England Chocolatiers]( [On the trail of New England’s premium-chocolate makers.] Bean to Bar | On the trail of New England’s premium-chocolate makers. Photo Credit : Krissy O'Shea In “A Taste For the Good Life,” (season 7, episode 4) we head to Maine to see what goes into making Ragged Coast Chocolates’ award-winning confections. Here’s a sampling of even more top-notch New England chocolatiers. Ragged Coast Chocolates Steve and Kate Shaffer began making chocolates out of their home kitchen on Isle au Haut in 2007. Today it’s from a production facility in Portland, but the rural Maine farmscape still informs their chocolates, as evidenced in the Maine Farm Market Truffle Collection. In flavors like blueberry-black pepper, Maine mint, and New England pie pumpkin, every truffle features an ingredient grown on a Hancock or Knox County farm. [raggedcoastchocolates.com]( Blue Bandana This subsidiary of Burlington, Vermont’s Lake Champlain Chocolates produces meticulously sourced and crafted single-origin dark chocolate bars developed by Eric Lampman, son of Lake Champlain founder Jim Lampman. [lakechamplainchocolates.com]( Chequessett Chocolate This café-workshop in North Truro on Cape Cod makes delicious chocolates, mostly dark, with some milk chocolate and single-origin bars in the mix, as well as confections like barks, brittles, and toffees. [chequessettchocolate.com]( Enna Chocolate Enna Grazier produces exquisite single-origin chocolates out of her small “factory” in Epping, New Hampshire, and her tasting notes (“toasted sweet biscuits, tobacco, milk, and a tantalizingly subtle tannin”) read like a chocophile’s dream. [ennachocolate.com]( Goodnow Farms Chocolates At their headquarters in Sudbury, Massachusetts, Tom and Monica Rogan make dark chocolate bars, some blended with local maple syrup or ground almonds, as well as hot cocoa mixes, from beans sourced from individual fair-trade farms. [goodnowfarms.com]( Somerville Chocolate In addition to selling his small-batch bars to the general public, owner Eric Parkes runs a chocolate CSA, whose members pay in advance for a delivery of multiple bars, mostly dark but also some tasty blends, such as white chocolate with chilies and chai-spiced cacao nibs. [somervillechocolate.com]( Taza Chocolate Known for its gritty stone-ground style, Taza produces a vast line of bars, Mexican-style hot chocolate disks, barks, and chocolate-covered nuts at its Somerville, Massachusetts, factory. [tazachocolate.com]( Series funding for Weekends with Yankee is provided by [New Hampshire Tourism]( [Vermont Country Store]( [Maine Tourism]( [Massachusetts Tourism]( [The Barn Yar]( [American Cruise Lines]( Weekends with Yankee is a production of WGBH Boston and Yankee Magazine and is distributed by American Public Television. [wgbh][yankee][apt] [New England]( [TRAVEL]( [FOOD]( [LIVING]( [WEEKENDS WITH YANKEE TV]( [YANKEE MAGAZINE]( [SHOP]( [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Pinterest]( You received this email because you signed for updates from [NewEngland.com](. If you do not wish to receive our regular e-mail newsletters in the future, please [click here to manage your preferences or unsubscribe](. *Please do not reply to this e-mail* © 2023 Yankee Publishing Inc. All rights reserved. 1121 Main Street | P.O. Box 520 | Dublin, NH 03444 [Contact Us]( [View web version](