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COCOA HERNANDO DISCOVERS SYRIA

Chocolate, News, Syria

Cocoa Hernando Discovers SyriaCocoa Hernando are delighted to announce the launch of an exciting new chocolate bar to celebrate the country & flavours of Syria at the Makegood Festival, Selfridges Hotel, London which runs from May 30th – June 1st 2014.

The bar will be a stunning 70% dark chocolate with Damascan Rose & features more beautiful vintage-travel inspired packaging – this time involving the hypnotic Dervish Whirlers of Damascus.

Cocoa Hernando are also very proud to announce that the bar will also be their first venture into philanthropy with 10% of the profits going to a Syrian Humanitarian Appeal in association with The Philanthropy Club. The appeal aims to reduce the health burden on the millions of Syria’s internally displaced people. The chocolate company also plan to look at other ways of raising money for the cause, starting with an event on June 11th at the Hoxton Hotel in London.

Paul Tomlinson, founder of Cocoa Hernando, comments: “I am so excited about this new chocolate bar which not only tastes incredible but also aims to celebrate a beautiful country which currently has very little to celebrate. It was always an original aim of Cocoa Hernando to give something back to the countries of the products, so this is a very proud moment for me.”

The bar will have a RRP of £5 & will hopefully be appearing in the finest stores from June.

CHRISTMAS CHOCOLATE TOUR IN TIME OUT

Chocolate, News


Cocoa Hernando Time Out

Milk, white, dark, orange, mint, hazelnut, chilli and salt – we could go on. Chocolate has come a long way since its Mayan beginnings. There’s an abundance of flavours, a multitude of brands and it’s available pretty much any way you like it, including raw. It’s fair to say we’re a world that can’t get enough of the sweet stuff. There’s even festivals to celebrate all things cocoa.
As part of London’s Chocolate Festival, Unreal City Audio and Cocoa Hernando have produced a theatrical tour of Georgian London’s chocolate houses. The tour will feature Aztec slaves, dukes, Spanish conquistadors and, of course, chocolate. Led by Dr Matthew Green, the tour offers a glimpse into the world of gambling and depravity at establishments such as ‘White’s Chocolate House’. Participants will also get to sample authentic hot chocolate from the era, including ‘Monsieur St Disdier’s Baroque Chocolate’ (1692), which promises to be a cut above your standard cup of Bournville.
The tours will take place on December 14/15 (11.30am and 2pm), starting at St James’s Church, Piccadilly. Tickets are £15 and can be purchased from unrealcityaudio.co.uk

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A CHRISTMAS CHOCOLATE TOUR!

Chocolate, FlavoursOfPlaces, London, News

Unreal City Cocoa Hernando
A new immersive historical tour reveals the dark and depraved history of chocolate and its sensational impact in Hogarth’s London.

Historical media company Unreal City Audio have teamed up with purveyor of luxury flavoured chocolate Cocoa Hernando to produce an immersive whirlwind tour of the decadent chocolate houses of Georgian London over the weekend of the London Chocolate Festival at the South Bank Centre.

The 11.30am and 2pm tours will run over the weekend of the 14th-15th December and cost £15 per person, beginning by St James’s Church in Picadilly (W1J 9LL). After the tour, the guide will lead the group across the Thames to the festival. Book via: here

White's Chocolate House

Set amidst the luxury shops, mighty townhouses and royal palaces of Mayfair and St James’s, this musical, semi-theatrical tour will reveal how “a divine, celestial drink called chocolate” (as one early sampler put it) conquered Baroque Europe and corrupted the most fashionable quarter of London, spawning establishments like White’s Chocolate House, a whirlpool of sedition, depravity, and kamikaze gambling immortalised in Hogarth’s Rake’s Progress.

The 90-minute tour is led by charismatic young London historian Dr Matthew Green, author and presenter of UCA’s critically acclaimed Coffeehouse Tour, and there’ll be a supporting cast of Aztec slaves, Spanish conquistadors, nihilistic dukes and rakish gamblers hidden along the route. Their performances will be set to beautiful violin music from the era.

Dr Green has uncovered some mouthwatering recipes for 17th and 18th-century hot chocolate, the most extravagant of which — Monsieur St Disdier’s Baroque Chocolate (1692) — will be served on the tour, courtesy of Cocoa Hernando. Shot through with a concoction of exotic spices, it will be a mind-blowing cup of hot choc. With dramatic performances, transportive violin music, and a cornucopia of historical anecdotes — not to mention the best chocolate in town — this is an unmissable Christmas treat.