Notes on chocolate: some bars are pure poetry

A delicious dairy-free bar that’s good enough to write a poem aboutIt’s nearly 10 years since I discovered Snape Maltings in Suffolk. Back then it was the site of a poetry festival. Sometimes you go to places that just feel so right straight away, for reasons you can’t really ascertain. I loved the containment of it – accommodation, a concert venue, shops, pubs, at the time a bakery (Pump Street, now sadly no longer there) all on site. The poetry was great, too, and it was there I first met the poet Hollie McNish.The food shop at Snape is also a delight – full of independent labels and old-fashioned sweets. And there’s a great array of chocolate, although increasingly few I haven’t already tried (life is hard when you’re a chocolate correspondent). Continue reading...