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Comment on Announcement: F1 choc bar challenge by Martin Christy

Martin Christy — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:56:53 +0000

After my groaning complaints, Duffy has texted in Vettel as his choice. Race about to start, probably rain towards the end!

Comment on Announcement: F1 choc bar challenge by Martin Christy

Martin Christy — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 09:37:07 +0000

Controversy reigns with more pit lane shenanigans from Duffy – actually it was my call this week! (I’ve made it clearer in the listings now who’s call it is!)

I definitely reckon this could be a Lewis race. It looks like rain and he’ll either win it or blow it. So Hamilton for me.

Care to pick again Duffy?

Comment on Announcement: F1 choc bar challenge by duffy

duffy — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:03:12 +0000

We are back after a short break at the fantastic Spa circuit in Belgium. Once again I am going vote rather than bet. Maybe McLaren have found some performance even though they say they haven’t been working. Yeah, right. Anyway a not-convinced Lewis for me and a general fingers crossed for rain and 2 Mercedes trying to fight through the pack for extra entertainment.

Comment on Ethical chocolate? by Martin Christy

Martin Christy — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:47:43 +0000

Hi Ollie,

Re Montezuma’s, they got all legal on us and threatened to take action for writing about them in the context of this post. You can draw your own conclusions about a company that feels the need to do that kind of thing. As we don’t have a legal defence budget, it was easier to remove the paragraph and move onto writing about other companies.

A lot has changed since that Guardian article. Firstly we do now have two bean to bar fine chocolate makers in the UK (Willie Harcourt-Cooze – http://www.williescacao.com and Duffy Sheardown – http://www.redstarchocolate.co.uk).

We also now have a lot of better organic and some of the single origins that have been around are finally trumpeting their certification – like Michel Cluizel’s Los Anconès, which is now ‘organic’. It’s great that their are now some real organic ‘fine’ bars, but they are tiny fraction of the whole market.

At the same time, there is even more generic, industrial, ‘value added’ organic around and I think the core message of this post still applies – the only way you can be truly sure about the ethical quality of a chocolate your eating is to know where the cacao has come from. Generic brands with lots of marketing,romanticism and ‘worthy’ certifications are not the way to go, in my opinion.

Comment on Ethical chocolate? by ollie

ollie — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:57:59 +0000

oh yea, and don’t domori and The Chocolate Society make excellent organic chocolate, even according to your own reviewers? (e.g. Domori Chacao Absolute)

this feature is overall worthwhile, but it does smack a little of ‘looking for the negative’

Comment on Ethical chocolate? by ollie

ollie — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:54:34 +0000

What’s up with this:

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Comment on Ethical chocolate? by Juliet Bennett

Juliet Bennett — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:47:07 +0000

Hey, great blog btw.

I’m a big Lindt fan, and I’m just wondering if you have an opinion on them, and their practices? My correspondence with Lindt makes me think they are okay: http://www.julietbennett.com/2010/08/18/correction-lindt-didnt-lie-we-can-eat-lindt-chocolate-in-peace/

Slave trade is only happening in the Ivory Coast isn’t it?

Comment on Amano new origin competition – win a year’s supply of chocolate! by Amano Chocolate goes to Chuao

Amano Chocolate goes to Chuao — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:35:34 +0000

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Comment on The Spice of Life by Alex Newman

Alex Newman — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:59:27 +0000

Fantastic article and invaluable research source, thank you. Who would have thought that once, New York was exchanged for a tiny, remote island?

Comment on Announcement: F1 choc bar challenge by The Pod

The Pod — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:13:22 +0000

Probably I should go for Alonso, but not really in the mood after last week. I know team orders are unavoidable, but the way they were carried out was rather unpleasant and left a bad taste in the mouth.

So I’m picking Mark Webber – it wouldn’t be much of a surprise if something went wrong for Vettel, leaving the door open for Webber.