Who doesn't love good chocolate?...
Rocco Chocolates: Founded in 1983 by Chantal Coady, a graduate in textile design with an MSc in Small Business. Driven by a passion for chocolate she opened a small shop on Chelsea's Kings Road crafting handmade chocolates beautifully packaged. 26 years on from opening her doors Chantal has embarked on a joint venture with the Grenada Chocolate Co. (purchasing a small cocoa farm in 2007), set up the Chocolate Soicety, campaigned for change among Britain's big industrial manufacturers, has three stores, written 3 books and distributes her chocolate in John Lewis and Waitrose. Rocco and the Grenada Chocolate Co. have been breaking the mould on Fairtrade chocolate; the GCC is a small co-operative with over 150 acres of land and perform every aspect of the chocolate making process. According to Coady, Fairtrade companies still process the product "in the first world with raw material that they import from the equatorial belt where Cocoa grows. In that way even the fairtrade system perpetuates a cycle" that the Grenada Chocolate Co. try to avoid by making sure everyone on the Cocoa farm and in GCC is involved in the whole process. Cocoa is grown totally organically and processed on machines from the 1990's which, believe it or not, are solar powered (!).
Our favourite chocolates? It has to be the Rocco Drinking Chocolate, to die for.
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