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A rare 400-year-old book titled "Un Discurso del Chocolate", regarded as the oldest known book solely dedicated to chocolate, is hitting the auction block in Portugal. This prized artefact, printed in Seville in 1624, is one of just three surviving copies of this work, written by Santiago de Valverde Turices, a Spanish doctor and academic. Until now, only two other copies of the work were known to exist, one housed in the national library in Madrid and the other at the University of San Diego in California, according to Francisco Brito, a consultant at the Anno auction house, as reported by Po...
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Cloiseau's Easter Egg collection is inspired by the Olympic Games, set to be hosted in Paris from Friday, July 26th until Sunday, August 11 this year. The work took thirty-five hours to make and features a huge central egg surrounded by a racetrack holding smaller eggs. The sculpture weighs 7.6 kg and the chocolates are available in stores and online across Paris. The €2500 price tag corresponds to the rising cost of Easter eggs across Europe. With the price of cocoa breaking a new record, the cost of Easter chocolates has risen an average of five per cent more this year. The cost of chocolate...
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For those with a close eye on Europe’s best cities, it will come as little surprise that Zurich has come out on top on the latest ranking of the continent’s most liveable places. Switzerland’s largest city beat out everywhere else in Europe in the recently-released quality of life report from the European Commission. The body’s survey took in answers from some 71,153 residents from 83 cities across the EU, European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries, the United Kingdom, the Western Balkans and Turkey. While the findings, which used data from 2023, discovered that, on average, about 9 in 1...
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Cocoa prices briefly surged to all-time highs on Tuesday, touching over $10,000 (€9,234.3) per ton, before settling back at $9,622 per ton on Wednesday morning, following disappointing harvests in key cocoa-producing countries such as Ghana and Ivory Coast. Cameroon, another cocoa-producing nation, has also been seeing much of the same conditions. The crop also saw a 19.8% gain in the past week, as well as a 42.4% rise this month. In the past year, cocoa prices have jumped about 231%. Cocoa is widely used in a number of chocolate products and confectioneries, with by-products such as cocoa nib...
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Easter egg prices are higher this year as climate change hits cacao crops. Popular brands like Maltesers, Lindt and Ferrero Rocher have jumped upwards of 50 per cent in price compared to last year, British consumer champion Which? found. Rising temperatures and humid weather conditions have stressed and damaged crops in West Africa, which produces more than 70 per cent of the global cocoa supply. Cocoa prices more than doubled in the last year, from €2,220 per tonne in February 2023 to a record high of €5,490. Sugar prices are also rising. Mondelez, which owns Easter egg staple Cadbury, has be...
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For the past year, Fiona McArthur has been carefully studying every film that comes out in theatres – jotting down notes as she watched each of them in the dark art deco cinema in Campbeltown, Scotland. “I looked like the pretentious person in the cinema with my notebook and pen,” she joked. But McArthur had a mission, and she took it very seriously – to come up with a creative way to represent the next year’s Oscars’ Best Picture nominees in her handmade, luxury chocolates. Last February, McArthur and her artisanal chocolate shop Fetcha Chocolates were approached to make chocolates for the Ac...
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The way to a person’s heart is quite often through their stomach. It’s understandable then that this Valentine’s Day, you might be trying to impress that special someone with some scrumptious culinary achievements. While restaurants are nice, and can be awfully romantic, reservations for Valentine’s Day are hard to come across. In fact, on reservation apps like OpenTable, they spike 500% in the days leading up to 14 February. If you’re reading this article, chances are you haven’t planned ahead. Don’t fret, procrastinator! We’ve got some tips for you on how to make an easy romantic dinner at h...
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