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Extraordinary Slow Boat Bean to Bar Chocolate from Grenada
Intead of Black Friday, we rather love the idea of Green Friday or Green December... and to celebrate artisans, farm2fork, small producers, one man bands, museums, artists, playrights, actors this slow magazine and all the passionate folk that produce really spectacular treasures from slow fashion to slow boat chocolate that you will want to hide, where better to start, than with really good bean to bar single origin chocolate, and then to talk about the story behind the chocolate and the farmers and how the beans escaped hurricane Beryl. The farm was not so lucky. 75% of the trees were uprooted on the island and Beryl was followed by floods and then drought. Buy the bars and help the farmers to rebuild their co-operative farm.
From today, this Friday, you will be able to purchase some exquisite artisanal sloth chocolate that celebrates terroir and exciting chocolate flavours from the Grenada Chocolate Company started by the late Mott Green together with his mother and , Chocolatier Chantal Coady and James Booth.
At the heart of the collaboration is Pump Street's Grococo 66% Cuvee with Cocoa Nibs. This jewel-like bar has been created to mark the year of Mott Green's birth. The result is a wafer thin, crisp chocolate embellished with cruncy nibs. The result - a bar that celebrates the authentic husbandry of the Grenadian Trinitario bean and terroir and the time, care and love that goes into creating remarkable slow chocolate.
Says Chantal, " Working with Joanna Brennan and the Pump Street Chocolate teaam has been a joy. The finished bar captures the distinctive character of this remarkable cacao origin."
Pump Street 66% Cuvee with Cocoa Nibs
Table Chocolate and Neary Nogs: Three Expressions of One Single Cacao Origin
Table Chocolate and Neary Nogs have also created their own small batch bars from the same Griococoa harvest.
Table Chocolate 09 58% Dark Milk Bar
Tasting Notes - Redcurrants, Cabernet Sauvignon and Panela
This is your opportunity to taste three different artisanal expressions in chocolate from the same origin and harvest and to support the farmers who grow the beans in Grenada and the idea of doing chocolate differently.
Parkin and Gerrish Antique Jewellery Popup, Chelsea
Parkin and Gerrish the antique jewellery house fine are holding a delightful slow luxe jewellery popup this weekend in Chelsea. RSVP and come and meet jewellery histiorian and all-round fine jewellery IT-Girl Zuleika Gerrish. Zuleika's passion for jewellery and her forensic knowledge of the great makers is both captivating and exciting.
If you can't make it to the popup, Zuleika offer's a very personal service where you can try before you buy. There's also a discreet 15% off until the beginning of december. Visit the website and discover the brilliant world of fine heirloom jewellery and celebrate in heritage, refinement and craftsmanship from another age.
Parkin and Gerrish
Ventnor Botanic Garden, Isle of Wight
Escape to the Isle of Wight for warmer climes and the delight of trees adorned with Christmas lights and the curiously fantastic, Alice in Wonderland Ventnor Botanic Garden, where it's always hotter in winter and the protected Undercliff supports a flourishing Mediterranen Garden, Citrus Grove and magical trees such as the red-starred Farges Glorybower, embellished with flashes of gold as the flowers mature. No one can outdo nature in any season, and certainly not at Christmas.
After you've admired the fragrant lemons, pomegranates and miniature orange trees and counted the flowers, you could sign up for Christmas Wreath making with plants and foliage from the garden. Or you could make a beeline for the top garden for Christmas Carols with the Shanklin Brass Band.
Slow Perfume Open House, Workshops and a Cornucopiea of Scents!
Do you yearn for something more whimsical, curious and individual when it comes to scent? Then, the delightful 4160 Tuesdays Slow Perfume Salon in Hammersmith invites you to a perfume open house next Saturday the 6th of December. Yes, you get to play with scent and see which intriguing flacon appeals to personality and desires.
Ditch mass-produced over-hyped industrial perfume and gravitate to small batch, artisan perfume and whimsical scents to wallow in your true personality, wherever that might take you. Do you like the idea of a perfume that smells of an ancient cathedral, chocolate and incense or overtly sexy and friendly! Yes, there is a bestseller for that. There are perfume workshops where you can make your own perfume. You can also book to make your very own artisan fragrance with perfumier extraordinaire Sarah McCartney. Sarah has also created a January Perfume Box to uplift our spirits during a month that can be challenging.
Copyright Alison Jane Reid/ The Luminaries Magazine November 2025. All Rights Reserved in All Formats and Mediums Including Ai.
