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The Chocolate Traveller will guide you on his journey of discovery into the world of fine chocolate and teach you all there is to know about its many unique origins, history and manufacture. Read about his visits and interviews with the world's best, bean to bar chocolate makers (cacaofevier) and, hopefully, become an informed chocolate connoisseur.

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Healthy dark chocolate

Some of you may be surprised to read the statement ‘Healthy Dark Chocolate’ and would never have thought that eating chocolate is good for you, whilst others may have already discovered the

Tagged: Cocoa powder; Dark chocolate bars; High cocoa

Fair trade chocolate

As a BBC Panorama program "Chocolate-The Bitter Truth", view here, highlighted last night, there is an issue of child labour within the cocoa industry.

Tagged: Grenada Chocolate Co.

Hot Chocolate

Hot chocolate, or drinking chocolate to be more precise, is one of the oldest forms of preparing chocolate to enjoy. It is widely considered to be the Maya from South America who first discovered and developed..

Tagged: Hot chocolate; Hot drinking chocolate

History of chocolate Easter Eggs

Many people today associate Easter with a deluge of chocolate eggs rather than the Christian commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and many other religious festivals and customs.

Luxury chocolates

“Luxury chocolate” certainly appears to be the most frequently used phrase when it comes to describing the quality of chocolate. Perhaps more so in the marketing of chocolate and its packaging than is actually used in day to day life.

Tagged: Chocolate Trading Co; View all chocolate boxes

Chocolate truffle

Truffle is the name given to a ball of chocolate rolled into a coating, such as cocoa powder, nuts or icing sugar. The name comes from the resemblance to the edible funghi known as a truffle, a delicacy found underground on or

Tagged: Truffles

Michel Cluizel - Cacaofevier

Until now, there was no universal word to clearly describe the key activity of “cocoa bean transformer”, someone who creates chocolate from the cocoa bean itself and not from pre-formed cocoa masses.

Tagged: Michel Cluizel

Chuao chocolate

The Chuao cocoa bean, named after the plantation and defined geographical area from which it is grown, is considered to produce some of the finest chocolate in the world.

Tagged: Amedei; Chuao; Chuao; Pralus

Pralus chocolate

François Pralus is one of the rare, true chocolate-makers creating chocolate direct from the bean (only a handful exist in France!) whose belief in the Aztec God Quetzalcoatl inspired the creation of his own chocolate.

Tagged: Pralus

Venezuela Chocolate

Deep inside Venezuela's tropical forest a quiet revolution is taking place. In the shade of the trees, pink cocoa pods ripen ready for the next harvest in early November. The pods carry the white, sticky pulp which is used to..