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Rosamund Coady – Ceramicist at Townhouse Spitalfields

Rosamund Coady is a ceramicist who studied ceramics at Camberwell School of Art and Crafts in the 1980s.

In 1999, she became Artist In Residence at Bruce Castle Museum in Tottenham. Her first solo exhibition there was called “Crocks in the Castle”.

Coady has participated in group shows at the Jewish Museum in Camden, Earth & Fire at the Harley Gallery Welbeck, and Cambridge Contemporary Art. She recently created a group of works for Twenty Twenty Gallery’s “Spring Flourish” exhibition.

Other solo projects include installations of Japanese cups in the Brutalist Lumen Church in Bloomsbury, and a food inspired show of plates when she was guest artist for Copperbeech café in Dulwich.

Coady’s work has been featured in publications like The World of Interiors, the Financial Times magazine, The Guardian, Country Home, Good Housekeeping and The Times magazine.

She creates simple ceramic forms but reworks them three-dimensionally with experimental glazes, creating combinations she calls “wild glazing”. Glazes are central to her ceramic practice – she mixes them instinctively, sometimes blending leftover glazes to get unpredictable effects.

Rosamund Coady and Reed Wilson join forces in the exhibition Layers at Town House
Spitalfields
16th – 24th September, for London Design Festival/Shoreditch Design Triangle.

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Foraging and Father’s Day


– story about meeting Lucy at Rendezvous tasting The Tidal Rum – on YouTube

This June we have a very special limited edition collection with The Tidal Rum and three of our chocolates that we have tested carefully to be sure they compliment the rum beautifully – This is your chance to gift some lucky person, of course it does not need to be your dad or even a man, just someone special who will appreciate this magical combination and maybe even share with you. In our family this kind of gift is known as a boomerang, and we love those! 


Meet Kazz the forager and this special ingredient, called Truffle of the Sea or Pepper Dulse on YouTube.

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Environmental Statement 

Since the Chocolate Detective started it has been an imperative to avoid the use of plastic unless completely unavoidable.

We use recycled or recyclable materials wherever possible. 

Our new egg cartons are made from bagasse, a by product of sugar cane. The result is an elegant, smooth white food that is safe board, so we no longer need to line the boxes with tissue, they are also home compostable.

Made in Lancashire, powered by water.

We are really delighted to have got to the point where we could have this beautiful paper printed, and proud to be working with this British company. http://www.roachbridgetissues.com/what-we-do/take-our-environmental-responsibilities-seriously/

New Arrival!

Our new black and white tissue paper is printed using water-based inks on historic mill site of Roach Bridge harnessing the power of the river Darwen. 

Soon we will soon be offering this beautiful tissue paper as standard wrap for all our web orders, and soon with a carrier bag as a gift option online. In the meantime we will be using it at every excuse and in particular at all pop-up events.

Any clear bags we use to pack the chocolate are made from Natureflex TM which is a wood based home compostable material. They may look like plastic but they are not! 

Natureflex Circular Economy

There’s much debate about composting as some materials need an industrial process to break them down, we aim for home compostable components.

The one thing we have struggled to source because of our tiny scale is a chocolate tray (for protecting chocolate bonbons inside a box). In this instance we have compromised by using a PET1 plastic that is fully recyclable by its similar to a plastic water bottle. It’s made from the same material as a plastic bottle.

This area of packaging is rapidly evolving and we will be keeping our eyes open for any new innovations.

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Chantal Coady the Chocolate Detective in conversation with…

Extraordinary taste, sustainability and social impacts

This event takes place in the British Library Theatre and will be simultaneously live streamed on the British Library platform. Tickets may be booked either to attend in person, or to watch on our platform (online) either live or within 48 hours on catch up. Viewing links will be sent out shortly before the event.

Chantal Coady, founder of Rococo Chocolate and The Chocolate Detective, is joined by Nick Davis, a grower in Jamaica, and Angus Thirlwell of Hotel du Chocolat to explore the dynamics of producing ethical, delicious chocolate and its huge impact on the local communities. Hosted by Leyla Kazim of The Food Programme.

With chocolate tastings available for those attending the event in-person.

Chantal Coady is the mother of the artisan chocolate industry in the UK and the real chocolate revolution. Having established luxury brand Rococo four decades ago, she now heads up The Chocolate Detective, leading the way in engaged ethics and sustainability. In the early part of the century she entered into a joint venture organic farm with Grenada Chocolate Company, directly supporting the organic cocoa farmers, who for the first time were able to become chocolate makers themselves and create real value in the local economy. She is a multi-award winner and author of five books.

Please come to the British library Monday April 11th 2022 as part of the FOOD SEASON 

https://www.bl.uk/events/

https://www.bl.uk/events/food-season

Leila Kazim of the Food Program will be moderator for the evening. Nick Davis founder  of One One Cacao https://www.oneonecacao.com  will join us from Jamaica and Angus Thirlwell of Hotel Chocolat will be there in person. We will discuss chocolate: past and future. Expect a lively debate and we will enjoy some special and delicious chocolates, while challenging the status quo of the enormous chocolate industry, dominated by just a few large players.

Join us in person or online

Tickets and online registration.

https://www.bl.uk/boxoffice

#BritishLibrary

#food-season

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“Choose Ethical Chocolate this Black Friday”

Bean sorting

Thank you – to Sourdough School’s Vanessa Kimbell shout out on Instagram:

THIS BLACK FRIDAY, YOU CAN HELP SAVE THE GRENADA CHOCOLATE COMPANY… BY BUYING CHOCOLATE⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The Grenada Chocolate Company needs your help. By buying and eating chocolate, you can help save a pioneering small-scale chocolate business that is facing an incredible challenge due to transport restrictions during the pandemic affecting their supply chain. Their existence relies on you filling your cupboards with delicious chocolate this Christmas.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The Grenada Chocolate Company is close to @VanessaKimbell‘s heart as its founder, Mott Green, was a dear friend. She says that if we’re going to be part of a consumerist society this Black Friday, let’s make sure we’re consuming artisanal products.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀