I know there’s been a lot of talk about the Academy of Chocolate for sometime, and some of you might wonder if things are going to happen or if it’s all just a lot of hot air. Well the Academy finally has a website – all-be-it a little basic – and the first World Chocolate awards are now officially announced. I really believe the Academy will be a long lasting institution and make a serious contribution to the quality of chocolate and knowledge in the UK and around the world, and we
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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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