Sahagún Chocolate Shop 
Portland OR 97209
Listed in: Chocolate
Neighborhood: Goose Hollow
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Elizabeth Montes started making chocolates nearly ten years ago as gifts for her friends and family, an effort that was rewarding but slow. Although she was completely seduced by the joy she felt when other people fed on her treats, she remained frustrated by the speed with which people ate them, especially considering how long it took her to produce them. She wanted to devise a way to slow people down hoping to prolong their chocolate experience and to resurrect the appreciation for an anciently worshiped food whose luster had been tarnished by decades of a low quality, over-sugared and preservative-laden impostor. In addition to using chocolate with higher cocoa content and deeper flavor characteristics, Montes believes that visual beauty is helpful in convincing people that chocolate could be a thing to approach with reverence. "When people see the human thought and labor you put into making something, it's rare that they don't respond to it with greater attention and care." She wants to decelerate the tempo of chocolate consumption to increase satisfaction and awareness even if only for a moment or two.
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