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| L.A. Burdick
Handmade Chocolates |
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Larry Burdick has fun with
his chocolate, creating elegant, whimsical chocolates that beg to
be taken home. With one taste of his little mice, penguins and ghosts
you realize these beautiful chocolates taste as good as they look. |
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What motivated you to open a chocolate business? |
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While working in Switzerland,
I realized I had never seen handmade bonbons from chocolate of that
quality in the United States. Artisan food products such as wines,
beer, cheeses, breads, etc., were becoming all the rage. High quality
chocolate making and chocolate bonbon making seemed not to be in the
picture. It was an opportunity to bring a unique and beautiful product
on the market and satisfy the artisan urge to make something unique,
beautiful and without compromise. |
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L.A. Burdick's delightful
mice come in 3 flavors: dark chocolate mouse with orange and dark
chocolate, milk chocolate mouse with coffee and dark chocolate, and
white chocolate mouse with cinnamon and dark chocolate. |
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Did you have any formal training in chocolate making? |
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For the most part I am a self
taught (through interesting jobs) cook, pastry cook, and chocolate
cook. I was slave labor in Switzerland (hard work and long hours in
exchange for exposure and experience) for three years. I learned a
lot there (and made some wonderful lifelong friends to boot). |
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Where
do you get your inspiration for the different flavors and textures
you include in your chocolates? |
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From my background as a curious
cook. I like to say our product has French gastronomical thoughtfulness,
Swiss savoir-faire and American imagination. |
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If you
had to describe your product line in a couple of sentences, what would
that be? |
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The highest quality ingredients
carefully and imaginatively put together, and shipped and sold immediately
after being made. A large variety of beautiful complex chocolate flavors,
made from the best cocoa beans from Central and South America, The
Caribbean, Madagascar and Java. |
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What
is your personal favorite out of all the products you make and why? |
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Hard to answer— it depends
on the mood of my taste buds. I’m always looking for complex
cocoa bean flavors. I'd have to say the full assortment because the
variety is gastronomically most interesting. |
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