After more than a year’s work, my new book, Discover Chocolate, is now available for pre-order.

This first review just in: “[Discover Chocolate] will prove to be a welcome addition to anyone’s chocolate library and for those reading their first book on the subject, I see it as an excellent introduction. Not intimidating and very informative.  [Clay] talks about chocolate in a manner not found in other books, especially in this detail. ... I found [his] discussion of fermentation to be better than I have read in any other book.  [The] photo sequences of ‘Before the harvest,’ ‘After the harvest,’ and the section on manufacturing chocolate are all very detailed and clarified several of my own questions.  I especially appreciated the ‘Pink’ sections throughout the book, ‘The color of chocolate’ and ‘Facts for the obsessed’, to name only two.”—Brady.

Discover Chocolate contains what is most likely the most comprehensive chapters on pairing chocolate with “adult beverages” ever written. Marginal Revolution author Tyler Cowen and his readers have much to say about this topic, spurred on by mention of the book.