The Chocolate Week Blog
Peter Gordon and Paul a Young team up to create cacao menu for Chocolate Week
Wednesday 31st August
For Chocolate Week 2011 Peter Gordon, the godfather of fusion cuisine and Paul Young have collaborated to create a unique cacao dinner to be held at Gordon’s Marylebone restaurant, The Providores. Using chocolate from some of the world’s finest producers and pairing those with seasonal and unexpected ingredients the duo have created a 6 course menu with chocolate incorporated into each course.
The inventive pair have devised exciting methods of including chocolate such as smoking panizza…
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La Maison du Chocolat hold tasting events during Chocolate Week and launch Duo de Ganaches
Monday 22nd August
This year La Maison du Chocolat has developed a luxurious coffret for Chocolate Week that brings together the personalities of La Maison du Chocolat’s founder, Robert Linxe and Creative Director and Master Chocolatier, Gilles Marchal. Showcasing the grand classics of Linxe and the recent creations of Marchal, the Duo de Ganaches reunites the skill of two different generations of chocolate making with two bonbons; the “Moroni” and the “Isle of Grenade”.
During Chocolate Week La…
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Hotel Chocolat launch Real Tasting Adventure Kit for Chocolate Week
Wednesday 17th August
British luxury chocolatier and cocoa grower, Hotel Chocolat, is launching a groundbreaking Real Chocolate Tasting Adventure featuring 10 chocolates from across the chocolate spectrum. It’s a take-home kit specially created to demystify chocolate tasting and help customers take their love of chocolate a step further – discovering how to taste chocolate, what to look out for and, crucially, how to express those flavours.
This brand new product has been inspired by the success of the company’s…
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Divine announce some of their Chocolate Week activities
Friday 12th August
Divine Chocolate, the farmer owned fairtrade chocolate company and sponsor of Chocolate Week since 2003 have announced some of their plans for the week. Divine and The Gore Hotel in Kensington have created the UK’s first ever Divine Chocolate Board. A sensory experience where the diner chooses three different flavours of Divine chocolate to taste, to which is added a scoop of Divine ice-cream, Divine chocolate truffles and fresh berries, the chocolate board concept which makes a tempting…
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Patisserie Vercruysse
Friday 29th July
Chocolate Week met with chocolatier Geert Vercruysse this week. Geert’s chocolaterie is based in Kortrijk in Belgium.
Take a look at his website.
He’s known as one of Belgium’s best chocolatiers and is now building a great reputation outside his home country. Chocolate Reviews started the awareness here in the UK with his extremely complimentary
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