Lake Champlain Chocolates
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Lake Champlain Chocolates (LCC) is a privately held chocolate
manufacturer located in Burlington, Vermont
, USA. The company handcrafts over one million pounds of gourmet chocolates each year. Its products are sold nationally through independent specialty food retailers. LCC also owns three retail locations in Vermont, including its factory store in Burlington.
Restaurant owner Jim Lampman, who was distributing hand rolled truffles from the kitchen, founded the company in 1983. Eventually Lampman sold the restaurant in order to focus on the new business.
In 1989, the Candy Bar Gazebo named LCC’s Caramel bar the “Best New Bar of 1989”. Other honors include “Best of the Region” by Yankee
magazine’s Travel Guide to New England, “Top 25 Picks for Kids” by the Vermont Chamber of Commerce Winter Guide 2003 and “The world’s finest chocolate…” by The Boston Globe
magazine. LCC is well known for its gift baskets and handcrafted uniqueness on the chocolates.
Lake Champlain Chocolates' product line includes kosher, no preservatives bars, chocolate bunnies, truffles, and peanut cups. LCC offers chocolate demonstrations, sampling
, and factory tours.
Chocolate
Chocolate is a raw or processed food produced from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America. Its earliest documented use is around 1100 BC...
manufacturer located in Burlington, Vermont
Burlington, Vermont
Burlington is the largest city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the shire town of Chittenden County. Burlington lies south of the U.S.-Canadian border and some south of Montreal....
, USA. The company handcrafts over one million pounds of gourmet chocolates each year. Its products are sold nationally through independent specialty food retailers. LCC also owns three retail locations in Vermont, including its factory store in Burlington.
Restaurant owner Jim Lampman, who was distributing hand rolled truffles from the kitchen, founded the company in 1983. Eventually Lampman sold the restaurant in order to focus on the new business.
In 1989, the Candy Bar Gazebo named LCC’s Caramel bar the “Best New Bar of 1989”. Other honors include “Best of the Region” by Yankee
Yankee (magazine)
Yankee Magazine was founded in 1935 and is based in Dublin, New Hampshire. It is the only magazine devoted to New England through its coverage of travel, home, food, and features...
magazine’s Travel Guide to New England, “Top 25 Picks for Kids” by the Vermont Chamber of Commerce Winter Guide 2003 and “The world’s finest chocolate…” by The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993...
magazine. LCC is well known for its gift baskets and handcrafted uniqueness on the chocolates.
Lake Champlain Chocolates' product line includes kosher, no preservatives bars, chocolate bunnies, truffles, and peanut cups. LCC offers chocolate demonstrations, sampling
Food sampling
Food sampling is a process used to check that a food is safe and that it does not contain harmful contaminants, or that it contains only permitted additives at acceptable levels, or that it contains the right levels of key ingredients and its label declarations are correct, or to know the levels of...
, and factory tours.