No joke

I enter the brick-and-mortar storefront that is Laughing Gull Chocolates through a black framed glass door and am welcomed with friendly smiles and a delightful, savory, wafting smell of—you guessed it—chocolate. Founder and chief chocolatier Lindsay Tarnoff is quick to satisfy my caffeine urge—she doesn’t know it, but I have skipped my morning brew—and graciously...