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Nut Clusters and Dark Chocolates by Way of Beirut

Maha Alami learned how to make chocolate from her mother in Beirut, Lebanon.Credit...Rick Loomis for The New York Times

Maha Alami, who is from Beirut, Lebanon, learned to make chocolates there from her mother. After a career in banking, she’s now turned to chocolates and is making excellent assortments, many of the pieces nut-based and most enrobed in her own blend of fine 70 percent semisweet. She does her work at Hot Bread Kitchen in East Harlem and sells her treats online and in the Plaza Food Hall and Épicerie Boulud at Lincoln Center. She has some new heart-shaped pieces and boxes for Feb. 14: Maha Chocolate, $16.95 to $62.95, 866-969-6242, mahachocolate.com.

A version of this article appears in print on  , Section D, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: To Share: Dark Chocolate Treats With a Beirut Touch. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

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