Askinosie Chocolate, Bean-to-Bar, Springfield, MO

I thought this was a pretty good article in The Kansas City Star yesterday:

http://www.kansascity.com/238/story/486340.html

No one would mistake Shawn Askinosie for Willy Wonka.

But in two short years he has built a chocolate factory and started selling his namesake single-origin, bean-to-bar chocolate to boutique customers scattered from San Francisco to Sweden.

Askinosie’s transformation from criminal defense lawyer to artisan chocolate maker has been every bit as trying as the series of high-profile murder cases that landed him on “Dateline NBC” and sparked death threats against his family.

Askinosie was mentioned here about a year ago by aguynamedrobert.