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About Lisa Bone

Design & Marketing Associate for Choc affair. I am 23 years old and live in the beautiful city that is York! I love baking and creating new recipes for the Cocoa Corner. My favourite chocolate just has to be our Salted Caramel Milk Chocolate - it's extremely more-ish - so I have to be careful if there's any about!

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Colombia – Origin Collection

Colombia is a country bordered by Panama, which divides the two bodies of water on the northwest, Venezuela and Brazil on the east, and Peru and Ecuador on the south. Through the western half of the country, three Andean ranges...
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Uganda – Origin Collection

Uganda is a land-locked country in East Africa, bordered by five countries; Kenya in the East, South Sudan in the North, Tanzania in the South, Rwanda in the Southwest and Democratic Republic of Congo in the West. Located on the...
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Vietnam
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Vietnam – Origin Collection

With a diverse geography of rolling hills, plains, and great beaches, Vietnam is a country of contrasts; and unlike most other countries of similar size, extends across two climatic zones, with a moderate climate in the North, and a tropical...
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Madagascar – Origin Collection

Madagascar is an island (the fourth largest in the world to be exact) located just off the southeast coast of Africa. Many know Madagascar from the 2005 film; however, the beautiful island is actually renowned for it’s stunning wildlife and...
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Peru
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Origin Collection – Peru

Known for it’s beauty and mysterious secrets, Peru is a country based in South America that truly has life at the centre of it’s being. Peru is famous for it’s biodiversity across the land, by being classed as a megadiverse...
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what is single origin chocolate?
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What is single origin chocolate?

There’s something so exciting about origin chocolates that evokes a sense of adventure in me. The word origin means the point or place where something begins, and in the case of a single origin chocolate, it means the cocoa beans...
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The Benefits of Dark Chocolate

In recent years, it has become more and more well-known that there are potential health benefits to consuming dark chocolate and cocoa products; which in my humble opinion is wonderful! Cocoa is one of the most polyphenol-rich of the commonly...
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Colombia Visit – May 2019

Two of our team members, James & Richard, recently flew out to Colombia to see all of the work that is currently going on out there within the cocoa industry. Our cocoa beans are grown in Colombia, and we work...
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