The top 10 chocolate Christmas gifts for chocoholics
Gift list choc-full of tricky customers? This might not be a case where only Smarties have the answer, but clever chocovores know that the most pleasant presents have a cocoa content. […]
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A lotta Zotter: Offbeat Austrian chocolate
I have completed security checks and am seated in the Austrian Embassy in Belgrave Square, West London. I am instructed to pick up the syringe that’s been planted on my seat. […]
The most cracking chocolate eggs for Easter 2016
If you’re both a cocoa nut and an egg-head, prepare to get seriously egg-cited over these cracking chocolate offerings for Easter… M&S Single Origin Cocoa Pod In an eggshell: A […]
Give up chocolate for New Year? I should cocoa! Part 1
If you were resolving to give up chocolate for 2016, it’s really rather unfortunate you’ve landed up on this post. What follows is not about doing without; instead, it aims […]
Fifth Dimension – chocolate from an alternative perspective
Fifth Dimension Chocolates‘ perpetually-smiling founder Russell Pullan could easily be the poster boy for career change. After two decades in media-land, chocolate came a-calling, and Russell never looked back. Entirely self-taught, […]
Champion chocolates: My favourite Great Taste Award winners
The results of 2015’s Great Taste Awards are out – and, as ever, they see a ‘galaxy’ of stars lavished upon chocolate companies producing far finer treats than the brand I not-so-subtly slipped […]
The chocolates the experts love to eat, Part 1
You might love their chocolate (or indeed, learning about chocolate from them), but which chocs do the industry experts rate? When I posed the question to a few friends, the floodgates […]
The Chocolate Show: 7 sensational treats to seek
Checking out The Chocolate Show at Olympia West this weekend? In between talks, demonstrations and goggling at the mind-boggling cocoa creations in the daily fashion show, you’ll no doubt be doing more […]
Checking out some Great Taste Award-ed chocolate
The judging of the Great Taste Awards is a job role that has always eluded me. Which is a shame, because they’ve gone a bit cocoa-crazy of late, with hundreds […]
Culinary Adventures of The Cocoa Nut 