Posts Tagged: Chocolate

Food pairing: Frankenstein cooking?

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Some food pairings speak for themselves. I ask you, who is going to squirt chocolate sauce on beef? And do it so that you’d want to eat it? Okay, Heston Blumenthal may and he’s certainly proved that blue cheese matches with chocolate. This useful site of foodpairing trees offers some pretty whacky combinations. Like I… Read more »

Fairer than fair trade chocolate

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One of the founders of Malagasy, a company from the north of England making chocolate in Madagasca, tells how it was established to help with poverty on the island. Like The Grenada Chocolate Company, the idea is to make chocolate locally rather than export a cheap commodity. It’s known as Equitrade. Writing on The Guardian’s… Read more »