Somewhat unexpectedly — including to them — the three dominant women chocolatiers in the East Metro share a similar trajectory.
Mary Leonard, Robyn Dochterman and Susan Brown all feel lifelong connections to food but began their lives in other spheres, and each found her way back to chocolate as a midlife career change.
Leonard started Chocolat Celeste in 2001. Dochterman started St. Croix Chocolate Company in 2010. Brown started Mademoiselle Miel in 2011.
Now, each of their chocolate companies are in their adolescence, and greater St. Paul’s dames of chocolate are using the treat to bring people closer together and encourage us to think about the world around us.
