People at Work: Local chocolatier cooks up major step for family business

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — Molly Cook, the chocolatier behind Marble & Steel Craft Chocolates, a chocolate company she owns and operates with her husband, John Cook, is preparing a big step for her local business.

“We are building our shop in South Asheville there on Hendersonville Road across from Publix,” said Cook. “What we’ve been doing has just been blowing up to where we don’t have room for anything, and we just wanted to be able to have our community here be able to shop with us more frequently and have more products to offer.”

The shop is tentatively slated to open in mid-April. The move will mark the first brick-and-mortar location for Marble & Steel, which Cook has operated out of her home since the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, producing bonbons, chocolate bars, cocoa bombs and flavored chocolates of all kinds, all while raising two kids…

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