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The point of this article shows how innovation and technology ideas - which began with the IBM PC - seep into mundane things like chocolate. Apparently coco is seldom graded as in coffee beans. But within 5 years it will be…
clipped from www.economist.com

San Francisco, a capital of food culture as well as technology, is the logical place to produce a high-tech chocolate. John Kehoe, Tcho’s sourcing director, says chocolate is going down the trail blazed by speciality coffee, as consumers become more discerning. Chocolate today, he says, is where coffee was five years ago. Having been ahead of the curve with Wired, which launched just as the web was emerging, Mr Rossetto seems to have spotted another trend.

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