The word chocolate is a loaded term. Guilt, pleasure, punishment, pain -- these are all adjectives plunged into the sweet brown concoction, alongside voracious teeth. You never just simply eat it. Like the taking of the communion wafer, chocolate's greatness -- and addiction -- lies in the space between the meeting of the tongue and the chocolate with its intangible connotations. It is a religion known to all. It is exactly in this gray space than Kira Baker -- a Ph.D. candidate in Penn's graduate school of Education -- started Jubilee Chocolates, along with her friend, John. Jubilee Chocolates is a company that seeks to flawlessly produce one of life's simplest pleasures while harmonizing the process with the owners' altruistic tendencies. All flavors that go into their whimsical blends -- like Lavender Honey, Saffron and Rosewater, and Glen's Raspberry -- are taken from organic farms in order to promote economic decentralization. For example, they use mint cultivated from the students at Drew Elementary School in West Philadelphia to make their mint chocolates. The partnership is in conjunction with The Urban Nutrition Initiative, a project coordinated by Penn's Center for Community Partnership. In a similar vein, the coffee used to produce their Coffee Whiskey chocolates is shipped in from the Mut Vitz -- a coffee cooperative owned and operated by farmers in Mexico. Like the plain aesthetics of a monk's robe, Jubilee's chocolates are spartan in design. Yet beneath the simple exterior lies a power-house of taste and refinement that hits your palette with the same impact of a baseball pitched into a catcher's mitt. Some stand-outs of their line-up include Pistachio-oh! -- a dreamy mixture of pistachio nut paste, buttery white chocolate and cinnamon, and Bergamot -- an exotic combination of Earl Grey tea infused with orange flower water and bitter dark chocolate. The purity and richness of their chocolates have earned the company a prestigious place in the Vatican of the food world -- a cover spot in Gourmet Magazine. Alongside sugar, cocoa, calories and caffeine, Jubilee Chocolates have thrown community partnership into the mix of chocolate making. Like a trip to the confessional booth, a dip into a box of Jubilee Chocolates can relieve you of frustration while making you feel a better person. Selfish gluttony for the the utilitarian good of us all. Now that's a sermon I can relate to.

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