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The Cost of Cocoa: Chocolatier.co.uk examines the cocoa market
The recent political turmoil in the Ivory Coast, the world’s largest cocoa producer, has focussed attention on the issue of cocoa production and the cost of cocoa. “Because of the uncertainty in the...
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The World of Fairtrade Chocolate
Francis Bediako drying the cocoa beans. Francis is a member of Kuapa Kokoo, the co-operative that co-owns Divine Chocolate. Photo credit: Kim Naylor Once a niche affair, Fairtrade chocolate is moving...
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Green & Black’s: Fairtrade and Flourishing
Founded in 1991 by Craig Sams and Jo Fairley, organic chocolate company Green & Black’s has long played a pivotal part in the story of Fairtrade chocolate. While holidaying in Belize, Craig and Jo...
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Meet the Divine Cocoa Farmers
Behind the widely-recognised Fairtrade logo, is the human reality of what Fairtrade is doing. People buy Fairtrade food products because they feel that by doing so they are helping farmers in...
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Chocolate Makers Launch Online At-Home Courses
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has turned the world upside down, with daily life for many bearing very little resemblance to what it was just a few weeks ago. While key workers – NHS staff,...
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Support Your Local Chocolate Makers (but Order Online)
Update: I made a chocolate shop finder that shows you where your nearest chocolate shop right now! Check it out as it includes the data shown below but in a much more pleasing format. There’s... The...
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The Chocolate Society Donates 1,826 Easter Eggs to NHS Staff
There’s so much coverage across the news right now about the challenging conditions front-line NHS workers are facing on a daily basis in tackling Coronavirus COVID-19. In response to the pandemic,...
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As Aurosó Chocolate Launches, I Get A Sneak Peek
There’s a new brand on the block, handmade in small batches in Oxfordshire, that blends the characterful flavour of Madagascan dark chocolate with familiar – and a selection of more unusual –...
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Mum Makes Chocolates For NHS Nurses On The Front-Line
Hot on the heels of The Chocolate Society donating 1,826 Easter Eggs to NHS staff is this heart-warming story I spotted in a Facebook group of a mum who made chocolates for her son, an... The post Mum...
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Valrhona Noir Guanaja 70% Dark Chocolate Review
Last year I reviewed the Valrhona Lait Jivara 40% Tasting Bar, a bite-size bar of chocolate ideal as a treat. Back then, I craved more of the flavour of cocoa to come through. Fast forward... The post...
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Rococo Chocolates 65% Rose Dark Chocolate Review
I’d wanted to try a bar of Rococo chocolate for some time now, and picked up a bar on my last visit to the capital. Previous contributors to Chocolatier.co.uk have waxed lyrical about their...
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Seed and Bean 72% Lavender Extra Dark Chocolate Review
As I raided my chocolate box, I discovered a bar of chocolate I’d bought to review squirrelled away at the bottom. It was a bar of 72% extra dark chocolate by Seed and Bean from... The post Seed and...
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Sloane’s Posh 53% Dark Hot Chocolate with Turmeric Review
Last year I taste-tested Sloane’s 44% Posh Hot Chocolate. I also bought a couple of other varieties to review and squirrelled them away. Today’s hot chocolate review turns things up a notch, by going...
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A Tasty Investment: Bullion Crafts Chocolate Gold Bars For The Royal Mint
South Wales is famous for very many things, including this chocolate blog of course (that’s my ego happy). It’s also home to the government-owned The Royal Mint in Ynysmaerdy, Pontyclun, which...
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Firetree 72% Vanuatu Rich Volcanic Chocolate Review
Firetree is a brand that has appeared on my chocolate radar more and more in recent months. It sources its premium cocoa directly from farmers on remote oceanic islands where the volcanic terroir...
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8 Mouth-Watering Secrets to Turning Chocolate Pairings From Blah Into Phenomenal
This guest post was submitted by Truly Experiences, a website that sells experiences for people who collect memories, not stuff. The moment we sink our teeth into fine chocolate, allowing it to melt...
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Tony’s Chocolonely Shelves Chocolate Circus Plans
A week ago I spotted a headline in my newsfeed that Tony’s Chocolonely had commissioned a wacky chocolate factory and visitor experience. Curious, I contacted Tony’s Chocolonely and they sent me a...
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Chocolat Madagascar Single Origin 37% White Chocolate Review
White chocolate is a cheap and nasty product, laden with sugar and devoid of any flavour, right? Well, hold onto your horses as I met with Neil from Chocolat Madagascar at the Speciality Fair in......
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Tony’s Chocolonely Sea Salted Almond 51% Dark Chocolate Review
I remember the UK & Ireland launch of Dutch bestselling brand Tony’s Chocolonely as if it were yesterday. It involved a giant red chocolate bar mascot traipsing around London appearing in photos...
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