Marmite. It’s not the first thing you think of pairing 64% Madagascar dark chocolate with. I can taste the Marmite still lingering on my palette like a single note sounded like a clarion call in the morning. Marmite and chocolate is something only Paul A Young could do and do it he has. Not just [...]

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A dark chocolate bee bar that has a Turkish Delight flavour of rose.  It makes it not too floral and quite pleasant.  It’s like Turkish Delight without the chewy gooey bits. The dark chocolate doesn’t stand out on its own and so the flavour of the chocolate is somewhat lost in the outstanding sweet rose [...]

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This “raw” chocolate smells the same, looks the same and seems the same as other chocolate.  It’s hard to understand what is so different about it. It’s like getting the Choc Chick Kit made up for you by someone else.  I wasn’t a giant fan but it was delicious chocolate and I really enjoyed the [...]

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The truffles from the Pierre Herme concession at Selfridges were somewhat different from ones I would usually try myself.  I didn’t enjoy all the macaron chocolates and so these ones were somewhat worrying.  I am not universally in love with pistachio and yet it seems in vogue with chocolate makers. Truffe au praline – praline [...]

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I discovered the new Pierre Herme concession at Selfridges in London.  The beautiful area dedicated to these lovely pastries is both attractive and practical.  Talking to one of the French assistants I learned that these macarons are not macaroons but lovely almond pastries. These are made in Northern France and shipped to the UK daily [...]

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Damian Allsop chocolates are lactose free and yummy. They are lactose free because of a desire to create even better chocolates and because cream changes the flavour of chocolate.

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Thorntons Metropolitan selection reviewed.

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Chocolate is my passion. I’ve learned a bit about it through going to lectures, reading up on it and attending educational seminars. So a trip to Theobroma Cacao who boldly claim that their shop is a place “where innovative and unique products are handmade to the highest standards using only the purest natural ingredients” was [...]

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Feeding Your Imagination has created a range of chocolates with as unique a set of names as the flavours they represent.

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