Eat Chocolate, Help Taza

Some of Taza's many totally unique Mexican-style chocolate products. Supporting a local business in need is delicious. // flickr/QuintanaRoo

Located in Somerville (just a short walk from Inman Square), Taza Chocolate is a local company which has been gaining some serious buzz for itself in recent years over what they’re doing: not only do they make 100% organic chocolate bars, they’re also the only 100% stone-ground “bean-to-bar” company in the United States. They receive shipments of dried cacao beans, cane sugar, and vanilla beans. Everything else is done in Somerville. The good news is that they just recently finished totally renovating their factory and brand new storefront. The bad news? Almost immediately after repairs were finished, the factory was badly damaged by the flash flooding which ripped through Somerville and much of the Boston area on Saturday, July 10th, causing millions of dollars in damage (the local police department saw almost its entire fleet of vehicles and its headquarters destroyed). They could use a hand right now. In the form of you buying some chocolate.