Chocolate Unwrapped at The Real Food Festival

Thursday 6th May

Chocolate Unwrapped our dedicated chocolate show is at The Real Food Festival this weekend, 7th-9th May. We’ve brought some of the best UK chocolatiers, along with new international chocolate companies together in one indulgent chocolate-filled area. Visitors to the show will be able to attend demo’s and chocolate tastings from the glitterati of the chocolate world, taste new chocolates and meet their favourite chocolatiers. We’ve got a packed calender of demonstrations at the festival, including from William Curley, Gerard Coleman from Artisan du Chocolat, Paul a Young, Sara Jayne Stanes and Keith Hurdman, head chocolatier at Thorntons.
Other highlights include:
• Artisan British chocolate producer Duffy Sheardown launches his chocolate at the show. Duffy joins Willie Harcourt-Cooze as one of only two chocolate producers in the UK - try his wonderful chocolate for the very first time.
• Paul Wayne Gregory launches his sea salted caramel lollipops at the show. They’ve already won acclaim from The Observer’s Jay Rayner, come and try them for yourself.
• Available only at The Real Food Festival - Original Beans and Sun Trigg of Lauden Chocolates, the UK’s leading female chocolatier, have collaborated to develop the first series of truffles using Original Bean’s Piura 75% couverture made from an exceptional white criollo bean discovered in the foothills of the Peruvian Andes. Since 2008, Original Beans has brought this cocoa variety back from the brink of extinction.

The Real Food Festival have generously offered our chocolate week newsletter subscribers a discounted advance ticket offer: £7.50 for standard tickets (normal price £9.50) or £13 for VIP tickets. Visit the Real Food Festival website, , click on the ‘Buy Tickets’ button and enter the code CHOCUN to book your discounted tickets.

The Real Food Festival is much, much more than a just a food event, or farmer’s market - it’s packed with activities for the whole family and provides a unique platform for hundreds of smaller producers. The chocolate companies exhibiting are Artisan du Chocolat, William Curley, Paul Wayne Gregory, Thorntons, Ooh La La, Co Couture, Lauden, Original Beans, Auberge du Chocolat, Askinosie, The Chocolate Boutique Hotel, Duffy Sheardown and Chocoholly.

Other highlights of the festival include the world-renowned chef Raymond Blanc at the chef theatre, cookery workshops and some very friendly livestock – including Petal, the water buffalo from Laverstoke Park. With over 400 fantastic producers to choose from, come along and sample everything from handmade farmstead cheeses to slow reared British meats, beautiful breads, sustainable locally sourced seafood, the freshest fruit and vegetables and much, more.