Thailand sweetens menu of gourmet offerings

Aficionados pioneer quality chocolate-growing and making

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Chocolate and cocoa seeds from Kad Kokoa, a Thai company that specializes in the "bean-to-bar" process valued by chocolate aficionados, using beans of Thai origin. (Courtesy of Leo Sebag)

JOHN KRICH, Contributing writer

BANGKOK -- Six years ago, Thai corporate lawyers Paniti and Nuttaya Junhasavasdikul were in a midlife crisis -- looking for a way to break out of their legal work specializing in venture capital deals. "We wanted to build something for ourselves," Paniti says, "As well as to have a positive impact in Thai society."

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