ABSTRACT
Akutagawa Confectionery of Japan makes a number of chocolate novelty items in addition to its “Piaffer” chocolate wafers. Ambrosia Chocolate of Milwaukee began in 1894 by making consumer-oriented treats, but today it manufactures bulk chocolate in 10-lb cakes and 23-ton liquid chocolate in tanks. Its products are familiar to people in the form of Hostess Cupcakes, Heath Bars, Dolly Madison Cupcakes, and Eskimo Pies; when they purchase products made by Keebler, Pillsbury, Nabisco, Quaker Oats, or Swiss Miss, they’re consuming Ambrosia. A part of General Foods since 1927, Walter Baker & Co., Inc. began as a cocoa and chocolate enterprise in 1765 “on the bank of the Neponset River at Dorchester, where it falls to tidewater in Boston Harbor.” It was the first chocolate mill in America. Blommer Chocolate Company of East Greenfield, Pennsylvania, is one of the five largest manufacturers of industrial or bulk chocolate in the United States.
