Anna and the Chocolate Factory
The first thing you notice upon stepping through the glass doors of Mast Brothers Chocolate in Brooklyn, NY, is the smell. Not the usual Williamsburg neighborhood funk, but something closer to a cloud of fudge, the air thick with earthy, fruity, buttery scents of melted chocolate.
Though the Mast brothers, Michael and Rick, hail from Iowa, they’ve been leading the craft food movement in Brooklyn since the early 2000s, and are known worldwide for their artisanal approach to dark chocolate. It was this ethos that drew Anna Halpin-Healy ’13 to work for the Midwest emigrés, combined with a longtime passion for food she had developed at Grinnell.