chocolate

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A week of scented hedonism

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A week of scented hedonism

Its a packed olfactory and gustatory schedule in the coming week, I am gleefully excited at having tickets for the following...

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Shop, Read, Eat Chocolate

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Shop, Read, Eat Chocolate

A little retail therapy might just be in order with the Autumn nights drawing in; the lure of a good book and the siren call of the confectioners’ art is all too tempting.

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Her Dark Material - Cacao absolute

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Her Dark Material - Cacao absolute

The Cacao tree flowers’ bloom in 2 cycles of 6 months the whole year round, thousands of 5-petalled tiny flowers adorn the stem and branches.

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Bite sized chocolate info ..

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Bite sized chocolate info ..

A recent piece of research from New England Journal of Medicine compares the number ofNobel Laureates per a country’s capita to that of its chocolate consumption, no surprises they found...

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Pre-Raphaelites - Astarte Syriaca

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Pre-Raphaelites - Astarte Syriaca

I have been enamoured of the Pre-Raphaelite movement since I was 10 years old, when I received a birthday card of a Pre-Raphaelite print (I think it was ‘The Bower’), and many more were to follow!