OneOneCacao is part of a larger collective that was born during COVID along with the Black Lives Matter movement. Some of you ordered the sampler box from The Cross Atlantic Chocolate Collective, an exciting new organization bringing together folks with African ancestry on the continent as well in the Caribbean to work together to support each other and share their experiences making finished bars from the cacao they produce. This is an important step towards shifting the legacy of extraction and exploitation by the global north. The legacy of colonization and enslavement is far from being resolved, it seems we are only just starting to look more honestly at just how intricate a system is in place. Our global system favors the status quo, and pushes against folks who work to shift the old patterns of the status quo.

This tasting will engage our senses, and also take a peak at the myriad challenges that exist if you are trying to do business in this alternate way. It is like swimming against the current every minute of every day… it is easy not to notice the current when you are swimming WITH the current and it is all that you have known. It requires listening and noticing how the system doesn’t work for all, to understand how hard it can be to swim against the current. I hope together we can do more of that. Come to Jamaica and we will properly dive in! :)