Categories: Cooking With Chocolate Guidebooks


From Bean to Bar
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Hardback English
By (author) Andrew Baker


Chocolate... dark, white or milk; smooth, plain and creamy or bursting with flavours and textures, its guaranteed to get the pulses racing. And with chocolate-making now one of the most exciting areas of Britains artisan food scene, this book takes you on a tantalising tasting tour of the countrys sweet spots that helps you explore chunks of Britain while enjoying the countrys best and most authentic chocolate.

Whether theyre based in the Highlands of Scotland or the mountains of Wales; a shed in Cleethorpes or in the shadow of Winchester Cathedral, we seek out the rising stars of the chocolate industry, try their mouthwatering products and explore towns and cities where the bean-to-bar magic takes place.

Among the people and places included are Duffy Sheardown, a former Formula One racing engineer who makes bars of chocolate in a shed in Cleethorpes that are prized by chocolate connoisseurs all over the world; Willie Harcourt-Cooze, a glamorous globetrotter who grows cocoa in Venezuala and makes chocolate in Uff culme, Devon (sold in Waitrose); and the passionate young women of Dormouse, who from tiny premises in Manchester are winning international accolades.


Product details

Format Hardback | 272 pages
Dimensions 164 x 220 x 25.4mm | 748.43g
Publication date 01 Mar 2020
Publisher AA Publishing
Imprint Automobile Association
Publication City/Country Basingstoke, United Kingdom
Language English
Illustrations note Colour photographs; Colour photographs
ISBN10 0749581832
ISBN13 9780749581831
Bestsellers rank 797,508