Chocally Chocolate Gifts
They say that youth is wasted on the young. My youth flashed passed at such a high speed I can barely believe I’m the same person that set up in business on his own some fifteen years ago. That...
View ArticleToot Sweets Chocolate Selection Box
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to for unique chocolatiers to make a splash in the chocolate world so dominated by the big names. Lazy chocolate buyers will reach for the tried and tested...
View ArticleDemarquette Britannia’s Kitchen Garden Chocolate Selection Box
As usual Marc DeMarquette has created a truly inspirational box of caramels. You just can't miss these when they come out at the same time as Chelsea Flower Show. No related posts.
View ArticleChocolate Society Selections – Banoffee Pie Truffles and Salted Caramels
You don't have to spend great amounts on marketing to get your name out. Sometimes you just have to focus on producing lovely chocolates and the rest will follow. That's exactly what The Chocolate...
View ArticleHotel Chocolat Summer Fusions
One of the big problems chocolatiers face during the summer is keeping people buying chocolate throughout the warm months when there are few excuses to by chocolate other than birthdays and Father’s...
View ArticleForever Cacao 80% Raw Dark Chocolate
To me chocolate with a story tastes better than chocolate made with the sole purpose of making people in rich companies more money. Forever Cacao, a new and very small stone ground chocolate maker from...
View ArticlePaul A. Young Spring 2013 Collection
Normally when I review Paul’s wonderful selections it’d be after they’d turn up on my doormat with the purpose of a review. These, however, were purchased by myself because I’ve been working so darn...
View ArticleCoffret Duo de Ganaches Andalousie/Yuzu
La Maison du Chocolat are chocolatiers that I have a sense of guilt about. When I first started reviewing chocolate a few years ago I caught up in the swell created by their funkier alternatives. The...
View ArticleSciolti Botanical Chocolate Bars
Although Fiona Sciolti and I have been friends on Facebook for a while, it wasn’t until a recent summery Sunday at Tatton Park for a Foodies Festival that we actually met for the first time. One of her...
View ArticleSouth Devon Chilli Farm Hot Chocolate
Here in Blighty it’s blisteringly hot. Well for the UK in early June it’s a great deal warmer than it has been at any time in the past twelve months. So no seems to be as good a time as any to try some...
View ArticleSay it With Brownies – Mint
Chocolate, they say, is good for the soul. Even better for the soul, I’ve established, are chocolate brownies. July was a month of moving home and wondering how I would cope with making it habitable,...
View ArticleiQ Chocolate
Having swapped snacking on biscuits, nuts, cakes, crisps and anything else I shouldn’t have for dark chocolate whilst I work I just feel much better for it. I even feel more on top of my game, and this...
View ArticleCocoa Grower Biscuits
There can’t be many of us that don’t like biscuits. There might be the odd few that aren’t that fond of shortbread, but I’d wage a few quid that there are plenty that wouldn’t countenance the...
View ArticleChocally Autumnal Collection
From the very popular selection of chocolate gifts sent over just before Easter this year that were not only well received here, but also by my extended family, to Cally’s Autumn collection which...
View ArticleZotter Gentian in Black
The thought of eating chocolate made with some alcoholic flower beverage is significantly more appealing than the alternative - even though the packaging is somewhat more understated than Zotter’s...
View ArticleToots Sweets Bon Bons
I’m a lover of chocolates from London – just as much as I dislike stereotypes and lazy thinking. The conventional wisdom is that that the best bon bons are found in London or Paris, perhaps even New...
View ArticlePaul Wayne Gregory Chocolate Selection
Life is full of doing things we just don’t want to do. It’s part of growing up. Until half-past five every day I’m one of a few million who daily tippy-tap on a keyboard to pay the bills. Some of us...
View ArticleRózsavölgyi Csokoládé Spiced Drinking Chocolate
I don’t know about where you are, but here it’s cold. So it’s not the earth-shatteringly cold that we had a couple of years ago when it got down to -19°C when my son was conceived. Of course that...
View ArticleWilliam Di Carlo Perle di Dolcezza
Too much chocolate is encased in clear cellophane. For some, needs must. But when you remove the top of a box of chocolate treats and the rest of it opens up like a flower as spring sets hold you just...
View Article5th Dimension Selection Box
Quite strangely ’5th Dimension’ was the name of the second internet company I set up – way back in 1998 (yes I am getting on a bit). Back then my focus was firmly on making as much money from the...
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