A solar system of luxury eatables from Japan’s upmarket Rihga Royal Hotels.
Mercury (coconut mango), Venus (lemon cream), Earth (cocoa), Mars (orange praline), Jupiter (vanilla), Saturn (rum and raisin), Uranus (milk chocolate, well d’uh) and Neptune (cappuccino).
Pluto – recategorised in recent years as a ‘dwarf planet’ is not inclNOMNOMNOMNOM
Phew, what a scorcher.
Not him (altho…).
“Chocolate melting in the heat (above) moments ago outside Lemon Cafe, Dawson Street, Dublin.” (Dave Dempsey)
The Star Wars Han Solo Carbonite Chocolate Bar – $11.99 from Thinkgeek.
Sweet Play is a concept by French designer Elsa Lambinet who recently graduated from the ECAL University of Art and Design with a Masters in Advanced Studies in Luxury. Now that’s a degree.
The idea behind sweet play is pretty straightforward. A modular design allows for three types of chocolate that can support two added ingredients: black chocolate has a hole to contain fruit, milk chocolate has spaces for nuts, and white chocolate is surfaced to hold liquids, and all three contain a hallowed compartment for inserted flavored wafers, perhaps nougat or carmel. Participants get to mix and match ingredients for hours and hours as they gorge themselves on custom confectionery goodness.
She’s currently seeking an investor to help make the concept commercial.
Elsa, if we had any money to spare we’d be rNOMNOMNOMNOM
The Unspecified Thing That Made Me Sad: broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
From the frankly delicious Tumblr Scandybars, whereby pictures of dissected US and European chocolate bars are uploaded and catalogued.
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By 2030, according to leading chocolatiers, a Cadbury’s Creme egg could cost as much as 20 Benson and Hedges. And 20 Benson and Hedges could cost the same as a flat in the Docklands.
We made that last fact up. Seriously though, the world is running out of chocolate.
In the future, chocoholics might have to work quite a bit harder to pay for their fix. The world could run out of affordable chocolate within 20 years as farmers abandon their crops in the global cocoa basket of West Africa, industry experts claim.
“Galaxy, Creme Eggs, every kind of £1 chocolate bar will be a thing of the past,” warns London chocolatier Marc Demarquette, who believes a bar at £7, or its future equivalent, will be more like it.
Chocolate: worth its weight in gold (Independent)
