Rabot Estate opens in Borough Market
Today saw the launch of UK premium chocolate chain Hotel Chocolat‘s new high end chocolate shop, Rabot Estate. Strategically placed in Borough Market – the centre of London foodie culture, the new...
View ArticleTuscan chocolate taster
I’ve needed to go to Italy for meetings for some months now to discuss the upcoming ChocoAndino event in Colombia with Monica Meschini. The Icelandic ash clouds kept getting in the way though. I...
View ArticleAmano Chuao
The bloggers and twitterati have been buzzing recently, fuelled by Amano’s ‘guess the origin‘ competition. A new Amano origin chocolate bar is interesting news enough, but rumours and guesses about a...
View ArticleLive tasting with Per Liss at William Curley
New dessert launches at William Curley Long time member of Seventypercent’s community online Per Liss has been coming to Chocolate Week every year since the annual celebration of fine chocolate in the...
View ArticleAmano confection collection
Followers of Seventypercent will be no stranger to Amano chocolate. One of the new crop of US artisanal bean to bar chocolate makers, Amano have made a splash in the last few years with multiple awards...
View ArticleDamian Allsop ‘The Pure Collection’
A new ‘pure’ collection from master of the water-based ganache – London chocolatier Damian Allsop, featuring origin chocolate from Valrhona. No flavoured filled chocolates here, just a pure expression...
View ArticleCataloguing a chocolate collection
What with review samples, tasting samples, bags of bars brought back from shows, new products, requested items, unsolicited items, couverture for workshops, liquor, cocoa powder and butter, cacao...
View ArticleWilliam Curley vs your local sweet shop – Bounty bar smackdown
William Curley has come over all Curley Wurley – and he’s on a mission to recreate the contents of your childhood sweet shop memories. Following his recently introduced ‘jaffa cake’, now comes his own...
View ArticleChocolaterie A. Morin collection
At last year’s Salon du Chocolat in Paris I met up with Franck Morin, of Chocolaterie A. Morin, a French chocolatier from Donzère, who have been making their own chocolate from the bean for several...
View ArticleDirectly Traded collection from Geert Vercruysse
Photos provided by Geert Vercruysse After a long incubation period, the new fine chocolate industry association Direct Cacao was finally launched during Chocolate Week in London on 12 October 2012....
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