Playing with the taste of chocolate to create unique flavour experiences led to fame and fortune in the fictional world of Wonka. Not scientists are finding ways of doing it for real.
While researchers haven’t explicitly recommended eating chocolate to stave off heart disease, one paper concludes that regularly eating dark chocolate is likely to have net benefits to our health, and that the strongest evidence base pertains to heart health. Humans have been consuming some form of chocolate for hundreds of years. For most of this time, it […]
By Christina Tsangaris 25 Feb 2021
Gender inequality affects people and places the world over, from the corridors of power in London to the cocoa farms of developing countries, where women involved in the production of cocoa normally receive a lower-income than men, with many earning less than the minimum wage. According to the World Economic Forum, it will take 202 years to close the global economic gender pay gap at our current rate of progress, and two centuries is far too long to wait.
With over 85 years of experience shared between them, Firetree founders, David Zulman, Martyn O’Dare and Aidan Bishop, were conscious of this disparity when they set out to make their super-premium, single-estate chocolate in 2017. In creating Firetree, the founders aimed to not only produce a first-class tasting chocolate with the best flavours on the market, but also to ensure that all farmers, regardless of gender, are paid a significant premium of up to two to three times the market rate.