It took three years for historian Julio Fernandez Amón and journalist George Soriano to take the plunge and leave their day jobs in Costa Rica to follow a dream of making chocolate. Their goal was to make chocolate, start-to-finish, in Costa Rica with Costa Rican cacao. They apply native, pre-Columbian patterns to decorate their chocolate creations. Every chocolate, they thought, should tell a story both in flavor and design.