Spreading chocolate happiness: Largo man’s candy-making hobby led to thriving business (St. Petersburg Times)
**By Christina K. Cosdon, Times Correspondent**
Monday, December 19, 2011
**BELLEAIR BLUFFS**
Bill Brown was an executive with a global business services company and had
never made candy when he was inspired by a television program to make hand-
rolled truffles as a surprise for his staff.
The surprise was on him.
Candymaking, particularly chocolate, became a passion that took him from
hobbyist to a serious student of top chocolatiers, and finally to a second
career as William Dean Chocolates, a business named after his father, William,
and his grandfather Dean.
From the beginning, Brown specialized in handmade, hand-painted artisan
chocolates, each piece a little work of art in such exotic flavors as
lemongrass and coconut, strawberry balsamic, honey-anise and biscotti, Grand
Marnier caramel, grapefruit and tarragon caramel.
Even before he opened his doors, chocolate lovers came knocking.
Bryan King traveled throughout the world while in the military and had
developed …
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