This fine looking building is based in Bournemouth and is now The Chocolate Boutique Hotel
This listed, 19th century Italianate villa now hosts chocolate making weekends and cookery schools. On the last weekend of each month you could learn how to cook with chocolate with chocolatier Allan Collier, formerly patisserie chef at The Ritz.
Allan was pictured [...]
Organic chocolate company Green and Blacks have announced a product recall for some jars of 300g Organic Hot Chocolate. Some jars may contain glass fragments.
Any consumer who has bought the 300g jars with the lot code L7348 (look on top of the lid) should dispose of the product and obtain a full refund by returning [...]
I’ve just scoffed a packet of mini Creme eggs - although I did let my wife have a couple too!
I enjoy these better than a standard size Creme Egg - must have something to do with the fact that you can eat a few of the mini ones but I’d never dream of eating more [...]
We’ve forgotten about a Christmas present that we had received - a box of Marks and Spencers organic chocolates:
As the shells were nice and thick these chocolates had quite a chunky feel to them. Although they were organic I wouldn’t say that I could tell at all. Would certainly try again!
Anyone else tried them - [...]
According to the official website Selfridges is exclusively selling Zenezuelan Black Chocolate and has been doing so since Feb 19th. At time of writing it doesn’t appear to be available online at Selfridges.
So unless someone from the company tell me otherwise I presume that’s still the case. So for that reason alone I won’t approve [...]
If you’re a viewer of Channel 4 you might have caught sight last night of the first of 4 episodes of Willie’s Wonky Chocolate Factory - I missed it !
The Willie in question is Willie Harcourt-Cooze and he owns the Venezuelan Black chocolate company. According to his website, Willie is the only small cacao grower [...]
As a parent myself I’m always looking on the packaging of my childrens sweets and confectionary to see what’s actually in the ingredients. Some sweets are more E numbers than any other ingredient …they go in the bin.
I spotted an article in The Telegraph business section reporting that Thorntons are enjoying sales success with their [...]