… a woman should know … not my title I should make clear before I start getting emails! Rather a monthly feature in the Feb 2005 edition of Eve Magazine in the UK (www.evemagazine.co.uk). This month the theme was the “World’s most expensive chocolate”, as advised by and quoting yours truly.
At the time of writing I reckoned this to be Amedei Porcelana, though by now it’s probably Valrhona’s rather less convincing version of the ‘champagne’ of cacao beans. Of course this is a fairly meaningless game and one could make up any price for any chocolate to achieve this. (A good example would be Chococo’s fruit-infused bars, which at
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Martin Christy
Martin Christy is Seventy%’s editor and founder and is a leading voice in the chocolate industry, promoting the cause of fine chocolate and fine cacao and those who produce them. With twenty years’ experience of fine chocolate, he has travelled extensively visiting cocoa plantations and meeting the world’s top producers and is a consultant to the fine chocolate and cacao growing industries worldwide. Martin is Judging Director of the
International Chocolate Awards, which he founded in the UK with Kate Johns of Chocolate Week. He is also Acting Chairman of the new fine cacao and chocolate industry association,
Direct Cacao and is a member of the Heirloom Cacao Preservation Initiative Tasting Panel. He is also a freelance writer about fine chocolate, contributing to UK magazines and several books about fine chocolate.
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