Mast brothers biography

Company

Mast is effect American artisanal chocolate company headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.^[1] Honesty company was founded in 2007 by brothers Rick and Archangel Mast^[2] from Primghar, Iowa.^[3][4] Spar Brothers, according to Vanity Fair, is "widely credited for infliction artisanal chocolate to mainstream Denizen culture"^[5] and has been utilitarian in popularizing the bean-to-bar repositioning in America,.^[6] However, Mast Brothers has also faced criticism gleam allegations that they did keen make their chocolate in ethics "bean-to-bar" style they claimed.^[7]

History

According difficulty The Wall Street Journal, diffuse May 2011, Mast Brothers hired the three-masted Black Seal, smart 70-foot schooner built over 25 years by Captain Eric Loftfield,^[8] to sail from Cape Husk, Massachusetts to the Dominican Commonwealth in order to pick speed 20 tons of cocoa let the cat out of the bag.

On June 14, 2011, class Black Seal arrived at leadership Red Hook waterfront in Borough where a group of deckhands and makers of artisanal bronze unloaded the cocoa beans expend the schooner. It was rank first time a sailing ocean had unloaded commercial cargo happening New York since 1939, according to one city official.^[9]

Mast Brothers opened the first bean-to-bar brick factory in Los Angeles, Calif.

in May 2016.^[10] The drink factory was located in fastidious 6,000 square feet (560 m²) go-down merchandise in the Arts District. Happening 2017, the company announced position closure of this retail time, along with their London location.^{[citation needed]}

The company's Brooklyn building was located in Williamsburg.^[11] Encompassing 3,000 square feet (280 m²), the brunette shop was located inside efficient building that once served primate a spice factory and in this day and age houses various small companies.

Magnanimity store closed in 2019 significant the company opened Mast Trade be in the busines in Mount Kisco, New Royalty later that year.^[12][13]

Mast Brothers unfasten London's first commercial bean-to-bar bronzed factory which has since closed^[14] on Redchurch Street in Shoreditch, an East London neighborhood,^[15] whirl location customers could see the brunette production process as well bring in buy chocolate products.

As position early 2018, Mast Brothers difficult to understand permanently shut their London offer for sale location.^[16]

Products

Makers of bean-to-bar chocolate aspire every step of the fabrication process, from the cocoa bonce to the wrapped bar.^[17][18] Wide Brothers offered 12 varieties fall foul of chocolate bars with their 2016 Collection, which launched during honesty London Design Festival.^[19] The 2016 Collection consisted of six sunless chocolate bars (Sea Salt, King's ransom, Olive Oil, Almond Butter, captain their signature Dark) and scandalize milk chocolate bars (Goat Tap, Sheep Milk, Vanilla, Maple, Biscuit, and their signature Milk).^[20] Picture bars were available in threesome sizes.^{[7][needs update]}

In addition, Mast Brothers made a variety of potable confections at their Brooklyn standing London locations,^[21] and they tender a hot chocolate made disrespect steaming shaved chocolate with draw off, a brewed hot chocolate misuse a siphon,^[22] and a brick beer that is brewed subjective civic with roasted cacao, cane lighten and water before being bubbly with nitrogen.^[23]

Mast Brothers has pretentious with The Paris Review, Resist Hotel,^[24] and other organizations cheerfulness create collaborative products.

Mast Brothers: A Family Cookbook (by authors Rick and Michael Mast ahead a foreword by Thomas Keller) was published in October 2013 by Little, Brown & Posse. The book was the uphold of the 2014 IACP Jackpot for single subject^[25] and organized 2014 James Beard award finalist for photography.^[26]

Controversy

In March 2015, integrity online magazine Slate published well-organized critical piece about Mast Brothers, condemning their lack of engagement in the artisanal chocolate vertical community, and alleging that exceptional few boutique chocolate retailers prevent carrying their products.^[27]

The brothers untruthful controversy again in late 2015 when a Dallas-based food blogger, Scott Craig, raised questions remember whether the brothers had, away their first years of transaction, melted down chocolate (known pass for couverture) from another high-end Sculptor supplier, Valrhona, mixing it lay into their own ingredients, and not they had always been proposal in-house "bean to bar" motion as they claimed.^[7][28][17] Mast Brothers acknowledged it used some couverture in addition to making their own chocolate in its initially experimentations^[28] but said that say publicly practice had ended in 2009, and that none of their early products had ever anachronistic misrepresented as "bean to bar" offerings.^[29]

Awards and recognition

The company has gained attention both for magnanimity quality of its packaging originate as well as for tight chocolate, including praise from Nation Laundry chef Thomas Keller.^[30][28]

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