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Welcome to my website!
I am Anne Isham, an independent chocolatier, a writer and a devotee of fine chocolate! I have earned the Professional Chocolatier Certificate of Achievement, with Honors, from
Ecole Chocolat, Professional School of Chocolate Arts in Vancouver, B.C.
The third of a family of eleven children, I was raised in Texas, and live there still, with my husband. My views on life and chocolate were shaped, in part, by experiences growing up in a riotous sibling circus. However, a genetic propensity for chocolate consumption, passed down to me by both grandmothers, primarily accounts for my chococentric worldview.
I’ve had many adventures in the pursuit of fine chocolate. Click on travel writing for stories and chocolate commentary. How I came to be so besotted with chocolate stems from my genes and upbringing and are covered in my book, Eat Chocolate – Lose Weight The Chocoholic’s Survival Guide and Practical Handbook.
My interest in the nutritional, culinary and historic aspects of chocolate led me to test my theories about chocolate’s enhancement of strength, stamina, endurance and personal resolve while exploring remote and exotic places, including: a successful trek to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania; a life changing hike in the Rockies; bicycling the back roads of The Netherlands; and a recent trek of the Inca Trail in Peru.
I hope my adventures in chocolate inspire you to a more chococentric worldview. Watch for my recipes and a few of the zanier bits of chocolate’s history in the Winter 2010 issue of Edible Austin Magazine.
Carpe Xocoatl!
Anne Isham
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a Mayan glyph for chocolate