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Terrific Truffles The Chocolate Garden is savoring sweet success by
Lisa Mackinder
10 | Encore DECEMBER 2015
Brian Powers
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ometimes when Tina Buck opens her eyes in the morning, she awakens with a very sweet idea, which means she’s dreamed up another chocolate truffle flavor. Soon after this a.m. inspiration, Buck heads into her creative workshop — her kitchen — to produce trial batches of this potential new truffle. “I always have a specific notion in mind of what I want to achieve with it,” says Buck, the chief chocolate officer at The Chocolate Garden in Coloma.