Chocolate as a Lifestyle
February 18, 2012
For many people, chocolate is a guilty pleasure. For sisters Frances and Ginger Park, Korean Americans, it's sweet success. They opened Washington's first gourmet chocolate shop more than a quarter century ago. In addition to running their shop, they have published award winning books embracing their family's roots and the American Dream.
Cecilia Perry has been coming to this shop, Chocolate Chocolate, almost every day for years.
"[I come here often] because they have the best chocolate in the entire region," said Perry.
Esther Alpert comes in a couple of times a week.
"It is just so sweet and pleasant to be here. We love these guys, and I think it is the best chocolate in the city," Alpert added.
Offering the best chocolate from around the world is what Frances and Ginger Park had in mind when they opened the first independent chocolate shop in the nation's capital 28 years ago.
"We grew up on some very fine chocolate because our dad worked for the World Bank and would bring back European chocolate in suitcases when we were very young," said Frances Park.
When their father died in his mid-50s, the sisters grew closer and decided to go into business together.
"But we did not know what we were doing and we definitely ate more chocolate than we sold that first year," Frances Park added. "But we learned one thing we did was we sort of over time created family with our customers."
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