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Tim Kellogg, who formerly competed in rodeos as a saddle bronc rider and known professionally as the Meeteetse Chocolatier, started selling chocolates in 2004 to pay for a new saddle. (Courtesy photo from Tim Kellogg)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Meeteetse Chocolatier thrills in creating new flavor combinations<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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CODY, Wyo. \u2014 A cowboy astride a bucking horse has been an iconic representation of Wyoming for more than a century\u2014at least since 1921, when that silhouette first graced\u00a0 uniforms for baseball players at the University of Wyoming. And chocolate has been connected to Valentine\u2019s Day since 1861, when Richard Cadbury sold heart-shaped boxes of chocolate candies adorned with roses and Cupids.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tim Kellogg\u2019s retail display case offers a range of chocolate truffles and other hand-crafted confections. (Courtesy photo from Tim Kellogg)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Those elements converge today \u2014 Valentine\u2019s Day \u2014\u00a0 when Tim Kellogg, known professionally as the Meeteetse Chocolatier, will almost certainly sell out his inventory of hand-crafted truffles, pastries and other confections on one of his busiest days of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kellogg, a former rodeo saddle bronc rider, first sold his chocolates in 2004 to raise money for a new saddle. He has since bought a downtown storefront in tiny Meeteetse (home to approximately 300), shipped his products around the world and been profiled in the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

He still loves riding horses, and routinely wears Wranglers, cowboy boots, a silver belt buckle and a black cowboy hat. But Kellogg is far more famous now for his culinary creations than his exploits coming out of the bucking chutes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kellogg reflected on his unlikely path from ranch hand and rodeo rider to globetrotting chocolatier last week after pulling an all-nighter to make hundreds of bourbon-infused truffles for Wyoming Whiskey as part of the company\u2019s Valentine\u2019s Day promotions.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI do better when I\u2019m challenged,\u201d he said, and custom orders are especially fun because he enjoys creating something completely new.<\/span><\/p>\n

Working all night to create a new confection is a thrill that \u201chas kind of replaced rodeo and that rush you have when the gate opens and the horse jumps out,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kellogg learned chocolate making from his grandmother and mom, and kept his enterprise small at first. He made and sold chocolates on Saturdays while working at a ranch the rest of the week. Kellogg used profits from each week\u2019s sales to fund the next week\u2019s efforts, bootstrapping the business as he went and eventually working full time as a chocolate maker.<\/span><\/p>\n

Learning new techniques and developing new recipes wasn\u2019t easy in such a remote, isolated place.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI got to this point where everything wasn\u2019t growing, and I didn\u2019t know how to grow myself or grow the business in breadth or diversity,\u201d he said, adding that artisanal chocolate shops in the U.S. were rare, and a world away.<\/span><\/p>\n

An unlikely breakthrough<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

But a breakthrough came for Kellogg while working one winter at a 10,000-acre Meeteetse cattle ranch. The job allowed him to browse an online subscription to\u00a0The Sunday Times<\/em>\u00a0of London, a newspaper that featured recipes and chef profiles drawn from the city\u2019s burgeoning high-end chocolate scene.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d go to work in the evening and stay overnight when the cows were giving birth,\u201d he said. \u201cThey had a computer and a little office in the heated part of the barn, and I would go out every 30 or 40 minutes and walk through the herd and make sure everything was OK, then go back in and go online to learn more about chocolate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The sign for the Meeteetse Chocolatier storefront features a rider astride a bucking horse, an icon for the state of Wyoming and coincidental visual shorthand for the company\u2019s founder, former rodeo saddle bronc rider Tim Kellogg. (Courtesy photo from Tim Kellogg)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Approximately 12 years ago, Kellogg traveled to London for a chocolate-making course, and has returned once or twice each year, sometimes working as an unpaid apprentice for Europe\u2019s most prestigious chocolatiers.<\/span><\/p>\n

At one point, he worked with a Belgian instructor who had Kellogg sample chocolates paired with different cheeses or foie gras (not his favorite food), and make savory dishes like a chicken breast smoked with tea leaves.<\/span><\/p>\n

Frustrated with the odd lessons and ready to quit, Kellogg paused while walking past a London bakery, stopping to see (and smell) an elaborate display of focaccia bread.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI love focaccia\u2014the rosemary and olive oil and sea salt\u2014and I remembered making a rosemary cream sauce\u201d the day before for the chocolate apprenticeship. \u201cThen it hit me. What if I made a ganache with those focaccia flavors?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That epiphany helped break Kellogg out of what he said had been a linear and tunnel-vision approach to making chocolate.<\/span><\/p>\n

He has also expanded his Europeans studies to include patisserie, a dizzying and picture-perfect selection of which he offers at his retail outlet.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since then, Kellogg also travels to Belize for a week or two each year to meet with cacao farmers and learn every step of how chocolate\u2019s central ingredient is raised and processed. It\u2019s important for Kellogg to source cacao directly from environmentally conscious growers.<\/span><\/p>\n

With a commodity like cacao, buying direct offers small family farmers a much higher margin, a concept many Wyoming cattle ranchers are working to implement with consumers and restaurants.<\/span><\/p>\n

That requires educating people about why hand-made chocolate produced from single-origin cacao costs more than convenience store candy, Kellogg said, something most of his customers now understand. They also know to shop early.<\/span><\/p>\n

He often sells out by mid-afternoon during the tourist season, and typically doesn\u2019t ship during the hotter months. Kellogg only produces as much product as he expects to sell, working alone to create confectionary perfection with a recommended shelf-life of less than a week.<\/span><\/p>\n

For Kellogg, trying new ingredients and creating unexpected flavor combinations helps keep his work interesting. But he\u2019s also hanging on to old favorites like his focaccia truffle, which isn\u2019t always a best-seller, but remains a cult favorite for many longtime customers.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI always keep that one in my display case,\u201d he said. \u201cI keep it in there as a reminder to myself of what was, and what can be.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Reprinted with permission from\u00a0the Wyoming Truth<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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