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Pods, pralines and Panama

Posted: October 21, 2007 by Martin Christy Chocolate Week blog No Comments

Harvesting cacao in PanamaOne of the highlights of our Chocolate Week programme, all about the journey of cacao grown in small farms in Panama through to chocolate finished in the UK by Bill McCarrick of Sir Hans Sloane chocolate.

For the love of Amedei

Posted: October 19, 2007 by Martin Christy Chocolate Week blog No Comments

One of the great things about fine chocolate is the passion it invokes in some of it’s converts. Last night we had the chance to indulge Academy of Chocolate Chairman Sara Jayne Stanes in a chocolate tasting devoted purely to Amedei.
We’ve been at many different events with Sara – promoting fine chocolate or the work [...]

Just desserts – an evening with William Curley

Posted: October 18, 2007 by Martin Christy Chocolate Week blog No Comments

With that title I hope all of us who attended William Curley’s excellent Chocolate Dessert Evening deserved the fantastic, if prototype, desserts William cooked up in front of our eyes tonight.
Using only Amedei chocolate, William made up three new recipes intended for the "Dessert Bar" that will feature in his new Mayfair shop, currently being [...]

Our chocolate week so far

Posted: October 17, 2007 by Martin Christy Chocolate Week blog No Comments

After all the worry and stress of putting together a programme for Chocolate Week, it’s great to now have a couple of events under our belt and to be able to relax a little.
Monday night turned out to be a great start, with our Olive oil, balsamic and ganache tasting, with guest speaker Michael North [...]

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