Chantal Coady spent 36 years working at luxury chocolatier Rococo Chocolates, until she left in 2019 when the company went into administration.Now she’s back with the new collection inspired by her uncovering the rich heritage of chocolate — The Chocolate Detective.
Source: Chocolatier reveals what it’s like to be run a luxury chocolate brand | Metro News
We’ve just launched a Crowd Funder #NetPositiveChocolate to create a permanent home for The Grenada Chocolate Factory Business that can make a lasting impact on inequality and climate change.
6 reasons to back this project:
This reward will be matched by the Chocolate Detective so will be worth £20. The money will go into a fund to be distributed directly to the farmers and workers at the Grenada Chocolate Company who are suffering from loss of income due to Covid-19.
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/betterchocolateforabetterplanet-by-the-chocolatedetective
Thursday 25 – Sunday 28 November
We are thrilled to announce the return of the annual Christmas Fair at the enchanting Chelsea Physic Garden.
Our annual festive celebration will be among over 100 stalls, with the finest independent suppliers within the beautiful surroundings of the Garden as well as delicious food and drink.
Along with food, drinks and plenty of cheer, we will be hosting our own Chocolate Detective stall selling a wide selection of our ethically sourced and packaged chocolate.
For a unique experience you won’t forget, make sure you come and see us at the Chelsea Physic Garden’s Christmas Fair on November 25-28.
To celebrate our half way mark in reaching our goal we’ve added another two opportunities for you to contribute to this brilliant cause: cocoa futures and adopt a tree. In case you missed the link to the main page we sent last week, here it is again:
She set about forming a new company, the Chocolate Detective (subtitle: “The finest chocolate uncovered by Chantal Coady”), through which she sells both her own creations and those of reputable makers (her “curated collection” includes bird eggs made from hazelnut praline and Ecuadorian origin chocolate, which are especially covetable). She aims to shed more light on chocolate production, making ethically produced quality chocolate more available. The firm sports a logo designed by illustrator Sir Quentin Blake, whom Coady met through Rococo’s work with the Roald Dahl Foundation.
Source: The chocolate business is based in ‘colonialism and slavery’ but things are changing
We’re delighted to have been chosen as a partner of Elizabeth Marsh Floral Design which has been synonymous with beautiful and creative design for over 20 years.
If you can’t decide whether to give chocolates or flowers you can now do both at https://emfd.co.uk/collections/the-chocolate-detective
We are thrilled to introduce our delightful new partner, The Chocolate Detective, founded by chocolate activist and sustainable cocoa expert Chantal Coady. The Roald Dahl-esque chocolatier’s commitment to delectable creations and to delivering a transparent and ethical product directly aligns with our own dedication to creating harmony between sustainability and luxury.
Start bidding now! – ends 20th June
Chantal Coady OBE is a friend from way back when I used to live in London. She was the first truly artisanal chocolatier as the founder of Rococo and her package design became iconic as was her first shop in the King’s Road, Chelsea. She has now set up The Chocolate Detective making amongst other things, the most beautiful birds eggs in chocolate- quite delicious too… We have hosted her at the castle for chocolate making courses where we made a bean to bar Potentino dark bitter chocolate and a sheep’s milk chocolate. It was fascinating to be involved in the whole process. I hasten to add that her chocolate is properly sourced and she really knows her métier or art.
Chantal brings unique expertise both as a hands-on maker and recipe developer using her extraordinary “nose and palate”. She is able to create bespoke products and curate chocolate collections working with other makers.
A recognised world expert on cocoa and chocolate, she has had a lifelong interest in sustainability, branding, design & calligraphy.
Plus she was awarded an OBE medal in the Queen’s birthday honours 2014 for “Services to Chocolate Making” (still the only person to have received this honour) and (even more accomplishments) was recently appointed co-chair of The Academy of Chocolate.
Since the turn of the 21st century Chantal has been working with the farmers and chocolate makers at the Grenada Chocolate Company, and in 2007 invested in an organic cocoa farm on the island. Her focus on genuinely slave free chocolate, as oppose typical business model used by the chocolate industry based on centuries of colonial norms.
Charlotte
Chantal Coady OBE
The Chocolate Detective | The finest chocolate uncovered by Chantal Coady