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Mayana Chocolate

Spooner, WIBrand · Food and drink

If you're going to make chocolate, you may as well make it the best chocolate EVER. Mayana Chocolate is run by husband and wife team Daniel and Tamara Herskovic, who are as in love with chocolate as they are with each other. Daniel takes world class chocolate, adds his culinary finesse and creates the edible treasure of a Mayana chocolate. Tamara brings her interior architecture schooling and event planning career to design and radiate the experience of Mayana. She fashions the chocolate packaging and custom designs and brings warm communication to all clientele. They formed a partnership both in life and the culinary world after initially meeting while working a dining event in Chicago. Daniel remembers being instantly won over by Tamara’s smile as she passed him in the hallway that evening. Tamara later went on to start a very successful event planning company in Chicago with well known clients in entertainment, politics, and industry. More recently, she followed through with another passion and received her 200 hour yoga teacher certification - eventually starting a yoga studio in Spooner, Wisconsin, Mayana's future home. Daniel had been busy building a chef career at top restaurants in three of America's premier food cities: New York, San Francisco, and Chicago. He then launched his own private catering business and later, with Tamara, began to create elaborately orchestrated dinners for some of Chicago’s most well known residents. After several years in the business, he decided that his catering customers would enjoy a post-dessert memento to take home. He loved the challenge that chocolate presented: difficult to temper and mercurial in texture, chocolate is a living ingredient at the whims of agriculture and processing techniques. Techniques Daniel set out to master. Tragically his first truffles grew to the size of golf balls, as layer after layer of ingredients poured onto them. First he needed some help from the Masters.

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