The Speciality Fine Food Fair at Olympia heralds the beginning of the Autumn food trade fair season, on the first weekend of September every year. It is too early for this year’s olive oil harvest, but is timed completely right for showing beautifully packaged jams, chutneys, teas and chocolates, ready for Christmas trade. This is …
Chocolate
Paul A Young – chocolate artisan – 19 June 11
Chocolate has always been associated with luxury. It has a quality which induces the hormone serotonin, and therefore a feeling of well being. Mayan and Aztec civilisations made drinks from the cacao bean often flavoured with chilli and offered it to the gods. And it has long been used in Mexican cooking in their mole …