Before it was a Swiss luxury or your afternoon pick-me-up, chocolate was currency, sacrament, and something close to a weapon — invented 4,000 years ago on the coast of Chiapas. The long, bloody, glorious story of where chocolate began, and the maker bringing it home.

Goodnow Farms' Putnam Rye Whiskey unites two New England makers and a Dominican bird sanctuary — a Civil War nail baron, an endangered songbird, and quietly the bar that wins every blind tasting we run.

This one means a lot to us. The Maritime Edit — the magazine of luxury living in Atlantic Canada, and a regular voice on Monocle Radio — ran a feature on Hello Chocolate.