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For the lust of Chocolate

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For the lust of Chocolate

The Mayans and Aztecs of Central and South America drank chocolate to give them virility and stamina prizing its powers as an aphrodisiac, it was considered by the Aztec and Mayan people to be sacred...

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Secrets from a Walled Garden

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Secrets from a Walled Garden

Create botanically-inspired products at my new Autumn Workshop Fulham Palace is wonderful horticultural haven in West London, the historical home to the Bishops of London and with a...

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Bite sized chocolate info ..

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Bite sized chocolate info ..

A recent piece of research from New England Journal of Medicine compares the number ofNobel Laureates per a country’s capita to that of its chocolate consumption, no surprises they found...

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Beauty Secrets Workshop

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Beauty Secrets Workshop

Here is a belated write up of my morning workshop in August at Hampton Court Palace, as part of the events to run alongside their ‘The Wild,  the Beautiful and the Damned’ exhibition.

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Hallowe'en event - a Feast for the Senses

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Hallowe'en event - a Feast for the Senses

For me Autumn proper starts when the calendar hits October. Leaves are falling – red, russet, saffron and gold, the nights are drawing in earlier, the air has a woody, smoky ‘snap’ to it and my thoughts...

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It's Chocolate Week...

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It's Chocolate Week...

Any excuse to gorge on gourmand goodies  and since it is renowned  as ‘the food of the gods’ one would not want to risk heavenly retribution by denial or refusal – would one?!

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Pre-Raphaelites - Astarte Syriaca

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Pre-Raphaelites - Astarte Syriaca

I have been enamoured of the Pre-Raphaelite movement since I was 10 years old, when I received a birthday card of a Pre-Raphaelite print (I think it was ‘The Bower’), and many more were to follow!