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Northshore October 2025
Griselda Encarnacion, operations manager at Harbor Sweets, gets to perform an enviable task; along with operations co-manager Carol Haefner, she is experimenting with Harbor Sweets' new chocolate-enrobing machine. The two women place small, perfect squares of almond butter crunch on a conveyor belt that carries them through a stream of melted, 70 percent dark chocolate. The candy pieces then travel through an air-conditioned tube to cool, after which Encarnacion sprinkles each one with particles of exotic chipotle sea salt, trying to get the balance of salty and sweet just right. Surprising as it may seem, pairing the chipotle sea salt with t
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