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Askinosie Chocolate Expands Lunch Program

No, not to you. The award-winning Springfield, Missouri-based chocolate company will be using proceeds from two of its products to fund school lunch programs in villages in Tanzania and the Philippines. The PTA's at Mwaya Secondary School in the Kyela region of Tanzania and Malagos Elementary Scho ... More >>

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Missouri's Askinosie Chocolate Wins National Award For Its Licorice Chocolate

Askinosie Chocolate based in Springfield, Missouri, was recently awarded its fifth silver Sofi Award in the category of "Outstanding Chocolate" by the National Association of Specialty Food Trade (NASFT) for its new dark milk chocolate and black licorice bar. It's also a finalist for the organizati ... More >>

Danforth Center Has Big Plans to Eradicate World Hunger

image viaRamadhan Abdulla, a Tanzanian cassava farmer who has benefited from the Danforth Center's expertise and the Gates Foundation's money.​If there were an easy way to end starvation around the world, somebody would have thought of it by now. Obviously. But there are still one billion peop ... More >>

World Food Day Brings Volunteers to Danforth Plant Science Center

Photo courtesy Danforth Plant Science CenterVolunteers at a previous World Food Day event​Today begins a two-day commemoration of World Food Day at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (925 North Warson Road, Olivette; 314-587-1000). Volunteers around St. Louis will prepare food packages to b ... More >>

This Week in Gut Check, Regurgitated

Askinosie Chocolate Sean Askinosie with a farmer in Tanzania.​This week, Missouri's two bean-to-bar chocolate makers each made news with some fantastic recognition: Patric Chocolate won a Good Food Award from Slow Food Nation, while Askinosie Chocolate traveled to Tanzania and put itself o ... More >>

Askinosie Chocolate Goes to Tanzania, Gets Noticed by Oprah

Askinosie ChocolateShawn Askinosie (left) teaches a Tanzanian farmer how to roast cocoa beans.​When Riverfront Times visited the Askinosie Chocolate factory in Springfield last winter, founder and proprietor Shawn Askinosie promised he would take members of the Cocoa Honors program at the fact ... More >>

Danielle Nierenberg: Former Resident of Defiance Reports on State of the World from Africa

image viaDanielle Nierenberg in Arusha, Tanzania.​Danielle Nierenberg, a former resident of Defiance, Missouri, now a project manager at the Worldwatch Institute, a think tank in Washington, DC, spent the past year and a half traveling through sub-Saharan Africa as part of a project called Nou ... More >>

Danforth Center and Plaza Frontenac Pack High Protein Wallop for World Food Day

courtesy Danforth CenterPack 'em up, ship 'em out: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center volunteers pack famine-fighting meals for shipment to nations in need.​When it comes to the juxtaposition of hunger in sub-Saharan Africa with the wealthier enclaves of any First World city, it seems like t ... More >>

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World Cuppage: Brazil 3 - Ivory Coast 1; French Lessons at Tam Tam African Restaurant

photos by Keegan HamiltonTam Tam owner Kassim Kone (left) and some of the Ivory Coast contigent​Tam Tam African Restaurant is an inconspicuous storefront next to a liquor store in one of the countless strip malls that line North Lindbergh Blvd in Florissant. On a sweltering Sunday afternoon, the p ... More >>

Bean-to-bar manufacturers Patric and Askinosie are putting Missouri on the chocolate map

Java Enabled's Day at the Roasters

"It smells sweet, like candy," my friend said as I extended my wrist to his nose. My skin had absorbed the caramel flavors that had been wafting around me all day like a welcome second-hand smoke. It was the smell of coffee roasting.It was a bad day to hang out near a coffee roaster -- much less two ... More >>

Java Enabled: Coffee Farmers in the Mist, Pt. 2

Zach Dyer is a writer living in Saint Louis. He did his thesis research on coffee farmers in Southern Mexico. Since then, he has visited coffee plantations in Costa Rica and Mexico as well as roasters and cafés across the U.S. He blogs about coffee for Gut Check every Wednesday.In last week's arti ... More >>

This Week in Gut Check, Regurgitated

Robin WheelerThis week, Gut Check was obsessed with totally awesome -- or, at least, totally memorable -- commercials for stuff we have no interest whatsoever in eating.Why? I don't know. A passing fancy, probably.Or maybe we've been watching too much TV lately.As always, it was a busy week around t ... More >>

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