New website

Posted: September 30, 2009 by The Pod Latest, Website 3 Comments

Welcome to our new website, which is finally here, albeit in a not totally finished format. Hopefully you’ll agree it’s a huge improvement and will bear with us while we catch up with all the technical tweaking needed to deliver the site we want, and we hope you’ll find easier to use and more appealing.

Chocolate Week, 12-18 Oct 2009

Posted: September 17, 2009 by The Pod Admin, Chocolate Week 2009 No Comments

Chocolate Week is with us again, with events around the UK and the UK’s first fine chocolate exhibition – Chocolate Unwrapped.

Find out all about Seventypercent’s events during the week and follow our bloggers coverage of their Chocolate Week adventures.

Taste of Chocolate workshop – 16 March

Event: Tue 16 Mar 2010 Events, Latest No Comments

A new series of events that bring an innovative approach to the art of chocolate tasting.

With games and taste experiments these courses will awaken your chocolate senses and set you on your way to becoming a chocolate connoisseur.

Taste of Chocolate workshop – Brighton, 21 March

Event: Sun 21 Mar 2010, 14:00pm Events, Latest 2 Comments

A new series of events that bring an innovative approach to the art of chocolate tasting.

With games and taste experiments these courses will awaken your chocolate senses and set you on your way to becoming a chocolate connoisseur.

The Connoisseurs Club – advanced tasting session

Event: Tue 20 Apr 2010, 19:30pm Events, Latest No Comments

Our new series of fine chocolate appreciation sessions for more advanced chocolate enthusiasts. Meet fellow enthusiasts, reviewers and guests as we sample new and interesting chocolate, production samples or bring your own for a group review.

Meet the chocolate maker – Art Pollard of Amano

Event: Thu 11 Feb 2010, 19:30pm Events No Comments

In a specially arranged last minute event, Art Pollard of Amano will be our featured guest at our February tasting. Come along and find out all about this Award winning new US chocolate maker. Free Amano origin bar with every ticket.

An Audience with John Scharffenberger

Event: Wed 27 Jan 2010, 18:30pm Events No Comments

John Sharffenberger is paying one of his rare visits to London so this is a unique opportunity to meet this renowned chocolate maker and learn about his travels around the cocoa growing world working with farmers to improve their stocks, their environments and their livelihoods.

Southbank Chocolate Festival – 11-13 December 2009

Event: Fri 11 Dec to Sun 13 Dec 2009 Events 2 Comments

Warm up the winter chill with The Chocolate Festival at the Southbank Centre, London, 11-13 Dec 2009. Join Seventypercent.com on Sat 12th for our talk and take our ‘Taste test’ in the Royal Festival Hall

Chocolate books online

Posted: November 21, 2009 by The Pod Admin No Comments

Our new online Amazon bookstore gives you quick and easy access to the best fine chocolate books available.

Update your reading list now, or find the ideal chocoholic gift.

Pierre Hermé coming to London?

Posted: October 26, 2009 by The Pod Latest, The Rumour Refiner No Comments

Could Pierre Hermé, leading light of the new wave of Parisian patissiers be coming to London? We’ve heard hints for a while of the up-market pastry and chocolatier chain extending it’s current presence in Paris, New York and Tokyo to London, but the lastest rumour has it that we could be treated to more than [...]

The Academy of Chocolate presents Clay Gordon

Event: Thu 22 Oct 2009, 18:30pm Events No Comments

Clay Gorden will be giving us an overview of the US chocolate scene and introduce some of the new breed of American chocolate makers – some already known in the UK, and some very new.

Growing country vodka and rum matching – additonal date

Event: Wed 14 Oct 2009, 19:30pm Chocolate Week 2009, Events No Comments

Weds 14 Oct 2009 – An additional date for this popular tasting. We’ll be matching fine chocolate with various spirits produced in cacao growing countries.

Chocolate Week at the Scotch Malt Whisky Society

Event: Mon 12 Oct to Fri 16 Oct 2009 Chocolate Week 2009, Events No Comments

As part of Seventypercent’s Chocolate Week programme, the London member rooms of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society will be opening their doors to non-members for daily sampling of matching fine chocolate and Society whiskies.

And if you sign up for Society membership while you’re there, you’ll receive four fine chocolate bars to go with your introductory whiskies.

Links library

Posted: October 1, 2009 by The Pod Website No Comments

The last big upgrade of WordPress we applied to the site broke the old links plugin we were using, so the links section has been broken for awhile.
We now have a much better version installed, so you can now view our very extensive links collection here.
Thanks go to Per Liss (Masur) for all his hard [...]

Lovely lozenges

Posted: October 1, 2009 by The Pod Website No Comments

Those of you blessed with a fully standards compliant browser like FireFox, or an up to date one like Safari, will be seeing lovely rounded corners in our new site design. The majority of you using Internet Explorer, will be seeing the site all stern and square, and missing out on our whole lozengey feel.
Don’t [...]

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  • Sun 21 Mar 2010, 14:00pm
    Taste of Chocolate workshop – Brighton, 21 March
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  • Tue 20 Apr 2010, 19:30pm
    The Connoisseurs Club – advanced tasting session
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