Chocolate Fruits

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Call it intruging but Stephen and Gina Paul have always been fascinated with chocolate and fruit. We can truly say that in the mid 1980's when we first started dating, chocolate played a very important role in our relationship. It was on our very first date where we met Guy and Wendy Debas at their retail store in Fresno California call Foreign Affairs. Their hand made ice cream and truffle store became a regular stop for us and also became an inspiration for us. As mentioned in the history page of Bouquet of Fruits, Gina and I married in 1987. Soon after the opening of our retail business (Bouquet of Fruits) in 1988 Gina and I realized that in order to drive customers into our retail location we must develop unique and exciting new products from our theme of fruit. With the artistic talents of Gina, economic challenges of the produce industry and the continuing relationship with Guy Debas, now known as Debas Chocolates, we developed a brand new line of "Fresh dipped" fruits by Bouquet of Fruits. With the fresh fruit we were growing on our farms we began slicing and dipping tree ripened fruit in the finest European chocolates. These were and still are awesome, but have a very short life span. With the demand of the new "fresh dipped" fruit line we recognized the need to create products with a gift theme and shelf life for all occasions. Our first chocolate fruit gift product was our "Chocolate caramel Fuji apple" developed in 1991. The original apple looked like a...

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