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In the Press

Read about Grocer's Daughter Chocolate in recent news articles and also keep up to date in our blog!

Traverse - Northern Michigan's Magazine - July 20, 2009 (Full Article)
"Cut across the peninsula on M-204, then catch up with M-22 again as it winds south toward Empire until you spy the tiny chartreuse-green chocolate factory, Grocer's Daughter Chocolates."

Local Edition - June 4, 2009 (Video)
"A little local shop in Leelenau County is putting out a big number of treats, and it's all thanks to the vision of the shop's owner. Vic McCarty visited Grocer's Daughter Chocolate, and has the story."

Come to the Table, WJR - May 2009

Moments of Delight... Anne Reeves - July 16, 2009 (Full Entry)
"You are looking at 6 glorious chocolates from Grocer's Daughter."

Muskegon Chronicle - April 5, 2009 (Full Article)

"It just makes sense that chocolatiers of all sorts eventually would descend upon Traverse City, Mich., a tourist region that calls its visitors "fudgies" for the slabs of gooey chocolate they're somehow compelled to purchase."

Michigan Blue Magazine - October 2008
"Mimi Wheeler infuses her divine chocolates with local blooms."

Traverse City Record Eagle - September 3, 2007
Many women deepen their friendship over chocolate. But Mimi Wheeler and her friend, Miriam Vasquez, have forged an alliance that transcends sharing a bar of chocolate or a brownie."

The ulterior epicure - February 14, 2007 (Full Entry)

Traverse City Record-Eagle - February 13, 2006
"The way to a man's heart might be through his stomach, but recent studies show that the best way to the heart may be through chocolate."

Northern Express - February 9, 2006 (Full Article)
"If you find a better chocolate truffle than those made by Mimi Wheeler of Grocers Daughter Chocolate in Empire, let us know. One bite of any one of these fresh herb truffles, and one is immediately transported to a warm sunny summer afternoon in an aromatic backyard garden."

Lake Magazine - January 2006 (Full Article)
"Every once in a while a storied character becomes real. She breathes life into a delicious tale and satisfies our hunger for the extravagant, the essential, the cat-in-the-cream, lick-your-whiskers indulgence. Of course we're talking about chocolate."

Traverse the Magazine - November 2005
"... the flavanoids in ground cocoa beans, from which chocolate is made, may work like aspirin to fight off blood clots, relax and dilate blood vessels and even lower blood pressure. There's another benefit, of course, to small doses of high-quality chocolate. Good chocolate makes people happy."

Leelanau Enterprise "County Flavor" - February 10, 2005 (Full Article)
"Works of art come in all forms - sculpture, paintings, great literature and Mimi Wheeler's herb-infused dark chocolate truffles... "

Oryana Natural Food Market Newsletter "Soulful Chocolate Truffles that Sing in your Mouth" - Nov/Dec 2004 (Full Article)
"Have you ever heard of a chocolate truffle described as soulful and one that sings in your mouth? Then you probably have not tried Grocer's Daughter Truffles... "