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#chocolate

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Matthew

Ukrainian chocolate tasting event in London on 17 June:

cocoarunners.com/event/ukrania

They'll be tasting chocolate from Stranger, Sisters A., and Meetty.

Stranger chocolate is honestly some of the best I ever had. Very high quality. I've not heard of Sisters A. before but am interested to try.

Felicity Spector will also be talking about her new book, Bread and War, about food in war time.

Cocoa RunnersUkrainian Craft Chocolate Tasting with Felicity Spector - Events - Cocoa RunnersThe world’s best craft chocolate, in every sense. Join us for Ukrainian Craft Chocolate Tasting with Felicity Spector.
#Ukraine#Chocolate#FelicitySpector
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Flipboard Culture Desk

Soumya Gayatri remembers her first encounter with Dubai chocolate vividly. It was a cold, damp night in Munich’s Marienplatz Christkindlmarkt when she saw the long queue for this new kid on the block. “But by then, Dubai chocolate had already become a global sensation: a rich, sticky and unapologetically extra chocolate bar that had shattered industry records, won millions of hearts and was spreading like wildfire across the world,” Gayatri writes. Read more from @BBCNews:

flip.it/S9cInc

Close up of broken bar of Dubai chocolate, showing the green pistachio and knafeh inside (Credit: Getty Images)
BBC · 'It was born to be a champion': How Dubai chocolate conquered the worldBy Soumya Gayatri
#Culture#Food#Foodstodon
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Palm Oil Detectives

#News: 🍫 #KitKat and other #chocolate contains #palmoil linked to #deforestation and #humanrights abuses in #WestPapua. Julie Wark exposes the bitter truth behind this showing how you can #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🩸☠️🧐⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife in the supermarket
counterpunch.org/2025/04/08/we

CounterPunch.org · West Papua and the Sweet Taste of MurderIn its increasingly militarised torture mode of governance, the Indonesian regime—now headed by Prabowo Subianto, notorious for his war crimes in East Timor—is the world’s biggest palm oil exporter, to the tune of 47 million tonnes of crude palm oil in 2023, and 54% of global exports. The industry accounts for 4.5% of Indonesian GDP and directly or indirectly employs 16.2 million people. The total area of Indonesian palm oil cultivation is about 25 million hectares (out of 29 million hectares globally, which amounts to approximately 6.7% of the size of the European Union), and plantations covering many million more hectares are planned. In 2023, industrial oil palm plantations in Indonesia expanded by 116,000 hectares, a 54% increase compared with 2022.
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AI6YR Ben

Eww, just learned about Belgian "chocolate hands", which in Belgium ostensibly are about Antwerp but have a much, much darker connection to Belgian colonial history. (Belgium put a bounty on cutting off the hands of the Congolese, resulting in genocide and even many cases of hands being cut off live humans).

kvchaudhary.medium.com/the-atr

Medium · The Atrocity and Brutality of Belgium’s Black Hand ChocolatesBy Krishna V Chaudhary
#chocolate#genocide
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