The Industrialisation of Chocolate Manufacture - 1700-1875 Chocolate being made at the Fry's factory Up to the 18th Century the manufacture of chocolate was a very labour intensive manual process.…
The Spanish Conquest Christopher Columbus first encountered the cacao bean on his fourth mission to the Americas on August 15, 1502. His crew seized a large native canoe that contained…
Origins The cacao plant is believed to have originated in the upper reaches of the Amazon basin and the foothills of the Andes in South-Eastern Ecuador. It is thought that…
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I may make my own chocolates, but that doesn't mean I don't also like trying them from other chocolate shops and other chocolatiers. Sometimes the products and the experience can…
Would you have imagined a few months ago that we would be commemorating the 75th anniversary of VE Day in the midst of a crisis that is affecting our everyday…
