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Chocolate Articles...
Here are some interesting facts and articles on chocolate that
we've put together to tickle your fancy!
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ask is you mention Lick the Spoon chocolates and provide a web link
to our home page www.lickthespoon.co.uk
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Lick the Spoon
win five Golds at 2010 Taste of the West Awards
Wiltshire Chocolatier Lick the Spoon has won five prestigious gold awards
and a silver award at the 2010 Taste of the West awards announced on
Monday 16th August. The awards
are one of the most highly respected in the food and drink industry,
highlighting successful and high quality businesses across food and
drink production, hospitality and food retail.
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here for the full article
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Lick the Spoon
launches Chocolate Making Workshops
Chocolatier
Lick the Spoon have launched the first of a series of chocolate
making workshops at their Corsham chocolate factory.
Titled
‘An Introduction to Fine Chocolate’ the workshop will provide an
understanding of the chocolate making process, from the importance
of the ‘terroir’ of the cocoa bean through a fun tasting
session, and finally the chance to make chocolates to take home.
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here for the full article
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Lick
the Spoon launches Ice Cream in Cirencester Shop
Chocolatier
Lick the Spoon have teamed up with the award winning
Somerset ice cream producer Mendip Moments to launch ice cream in
their Cirencester shop.
Mendip Moments produce all of their ice cream
using milk and cream from their pedigree herd on Haydon Farm
overlooking Glastonbury Tor.
Lick the Spoon company founder Diana Short
said “We always planned to launch ice cream once our Cirencester
shop was established as it is a natural counterpoint to chocolate
in the hot weather.
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Lick
the Spoon Launches 2010 Easter Egg Collection
Award
Winning Wiltshire Chocolatier “Lick the Spoon” have launched
their 2010 Chocolate Easter egg collection. The collection
features a new development recipe in the form a Soft Boiled Egg
table setting, complete with chocolate toast and spoon. It also
draws inspiration from their new Cirencester shop with a Roman
mosaic Chocolate Easter egg... Click
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Lick
the Spoon Opens it’s Cirencester Chocolate Shop!
Chocolatier
Lick the Spoon opened their shop in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
this week. The shop is situated in historic Black Jack Street
and provides a showcase for the company’s award winning handmade
chocolates and chocolate cakes. Lick the Spoon was founded three
years ago by chef and mother of two Diana Short who’s family roots
are in Gloucestershire... Click
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Lick
the Spoon Opens it’s new Corsham Chocolate Factory!
Wiltshire Chocolatier
Lick the Spoon opened their new Chocolate Factory in Corsham,
Wiltshire this week. The factory was a year in the making and
allows the Chocolatier to meet the growing demand for it’s award
winning handmade chocolates. The company was founded three years ago
by chef and mother of two Diana Short... Click
here for the full article
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Lick
the Spoon wins Double Gold at the 2009 Taste of the West Awards!
Wiltshire
Chocolatier Lick the Spoon has won two prestigious Gold awards at
the 2009 Taste of the West awards announced on Tuesday 25th
August. The awards highlight successful and high quality
businesses across food and drink production, hospitality and food
retail... Click
here for the full article
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Lick
the Spoon Launches New Easter Egg Collection
Award Winning
Wiltshire Chocolatier “Lick the Spoon” have launched a stylish
new Chocolate Easter egg collection. Using the finest origin
chocolates, the collection draws inspiration from the latest spring
fashion colours. Presented in an original new Easter Egg box the
eggs feature Lick the Spoon’s renowned filigree chocolate work... Click
Here for the full article and press images
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The
Best Food Producers in Britain
The
following article was published in Country Living Magazine
November 2008, naming Lick the Spoon in Country Living
Magazine and Waitrose choice of the eighteen Best Food
Producers in Britain, for the 2008 Made in Britain Awards
competition... Click
here for the full article
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Lick
the Spoon Launches The “Wonders of the West” Award
winning handmade Chocolate Collection!
Award
Winning Wiltshire Chocolatier Lick the Spoon have launched
a new handmade regional chocolate collection titled
– The “Wonders of the West”. The collection features
chocolate recipes and ingredients inspired by the “West
Country”, from the tip of the Cornish peninsula, though
the fruit farms of Devon and apple orchards of Somerset,
to the gardens of Wiltshire and Gloucestershire... Click
here for the full article
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Lick
the Spoon wins Double Gold at the 2008 Taste of the West
Awards!
Wiltshire
Chocolatier Lick the Spoon have won two prestigious gold
awards at the 2008 Taste of the West awards announced on
Monday 18th August. The awards are one
of the most highly respected in the food and drink
industry, highlighting successful and high quality
businesses across food and drink production, hospitality
and food retail... Click
here for full article
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Wiltshire
Chocolatier Short Listed For First Country Living and Waitrose Made
In Britain Awards!
Diana Short of Lick the Spoon from
Chippenham has reached the finals of the inaugural Country Living
and Waitrose Made in Britain Awards. One of only 18 businesses from more than 200 food and drink
producers that entered the Awards, Lick the Spoon is hoping to be
selected as one of the five Made in Britain Food Producers of the
Year at the Awards Ceremony on Friday 5th September.
Each of the selected five Made in
Britain Food Producers of the Year will have the chance to see their
product on the shelves in local Waitrose branches, have their
product on display at the Country Living Christmas Fair 2008 (12 –
16 November) and will also receive £5,000 from Waitrose to develop
their business. One of these talented producers will also be named
overall Made in Britain Food Champion of the Year and will receive
an additional £5,000. In addition, all winners and finalists will
be featured in a special booklet, free with the October 2008 issue
of Country Living magazine, on sale Monday 15th
September.... click
here for full article
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Lick
the Spoon announced Best Independent Food Producer!
On
Friday 14th March 2008 the winners of the Wiltshire
Life Awards initiative were announced at a ceremony held at
Wilton house, Wilton, Wiltshire. Former Conservative Party
Deputy chairman and bestselling author Michael Dobbs presented
a total of 10 awards recognising excellence across Wiltshire.
Chippenham
based chocolatier Diana Short of Lick the Spoon was delighted
to be named as Wiltshire’s Best Independent Food Producer...
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here for full article
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Wiltshire
Chocolatier Best in the West!
The best of the South
West products were named this week
at the ceremony for the Taste of the West Awards 2007.
Renowned chef and regional food ambassador Michael
Caines MBE presented a total of 19 awards including eleven
Best of Category product awards.
Chippenham
based chocolatier Lick the Spoon
secured the prestigious Best of Bakery and
Confectionery title as the
winners of the final round of judging were named at the
ceremony held at Forde Abbey in Somerset.... click
here for full article
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Is Chocolate an Aphrodisiac?
Well not if you’re a hardworking
Chocolatier burning the midnight oil and failing to get it on
with your other half! For the rest of us however chocolate
might just tickle the parts that oysters fail to reach! Need
more convincing?….read on….
The ancient Mayans drank it for fertility, and the
Aztecs were convinced that chocolate was a potent aphrodisiac.
King Montezuma had rather a large harem which, as all harem
keepers know, requires considerable dedication to satisfy.
Fifty cups of chocolate a day later and Monte was a happy man.
It’s difficult to know of course which part of the heady mix
worked. A known active ingredient is the stimulant theobromine,
but there may have been other stimulants added to that heady
mix. This chocolate drink flavoured with spices such as
vanilla and chilli peppers was even exchanged
as a part of the Mayan marriage ceremony.... click
here for full article
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Local
Chocolatier licks the competition!
Press
Release 13th
August 2007
Chippenham
based chocolatier Lick the Spoon
have been awarded both Gold and Silver in the
prestigious Taste of the West awards.
In
the highly competitive confectionery category with over fifty
entries, Lick the Spoon won the elusive gold award for their
“One for me - One for you” handmade chocolate selection
and silver for their “85% Chocolate coated Ginger”... click
here for full Press Release
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The Chocolate Revolution?
There is a chocolate gold rush underway
fuelled by increased awareness of a public hungry for good
quality, traceable foods, and retailers are at the front line as
small independent manufacturers and established confectioners vie
for the luxury pound. There are few people who don’t like
chocolate, and everyone has their favourite, be it a Kit Kat or an
exclusive high cocoa dark bar. Many retailers will need to appeal
to both ends of that spectrum, but when faced with the daunting
array of “High end” products with price tags to match, how do
you distinguish between fool’s gold and the real thing?
... click
here for full article
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