Annotated Resource Reviews/ Bibliography

Drunken Botanist
Highly recommended entertaining and educational read on the history of infusing herbs into alcohol.

Naked Chocolate
David Wolfe presents a unique perspective of the value of eating chocolate raw.  

Making Artisan Chocolate
Great recipes and clear language around essential processes like tempering.

Chocolates and Confections: Formula, Theory, and Technique for the Artisan Confectioner.
Technical understanding of the traditional chocolatiering processes.  Lots of wonderful recipes and essays.  This is a huge textbook.

http://www.wilburchocolate.com/chocolatelore/bean-to-bar/
Good description of bean to bar chocolate.

http://acselementsofchocolate.typepad.com/elements_of_chocolate/Chocolate.html
One of the best pages I have found on description of what can go wrong and why with chocolate.

Evidence of Peer Support

I have had multiple calls with Simha, Laura, Kate and Charles during the course of working on this OP.  Here is a sample from a call with Laura that impacted my view of Active Experimentation and Local Enterpirses.  Two themes that are paramount in this OP:

GENERAL THEMES enjoyed
Good reflections on both my current projects
Kolb Kite and Action Learning within OP Commentary
Further development on OP template

Kolb Kite reflections
AC —> Applied Theory/ Research
CE —> Practical/Project Work
RO —> Evaluating Outcomes
AE —> Design/ Prototypes (Rapid)/ Interventions

Successful use of Active Experimentation within exploring chocolates and cordials

OP Template
Themed templates where content meets structure
my guess is commentary would look the same for many OP’s ;
and the design / the structure of the core report could match the subject matter
Zone 0
Land Stewardship
Starting a business
Action Learning

Liam PROJECTS

Enterprise Ecology
Guilds of Small businesses

Personal Health Web
Maximum point of leverage

Problem is an opportunity
in that the challenge of parsing the categorization of meta patterns
is that they all are depply interconnected and
REINFORCE each other

Ignorance to proficiency is a short walk
Ignorance to Mastery is a lifetime journey