Notes on chocolate: bars with their origins in darkest Peru

Get the message: Co-op’s Single Origin gianduja chocolate bar, with a good dollop of hazelnut paste Photograph: PR

This last week I’ve settled myself into my garden swingseat, making the most of these days where summer hands the baton over to autumn. Sometimes I take a book out there, or a screen to watch something not too taxing. But always some chocolate, too.

Remember those 1970s ads when women only stopped vacuuming for a flakey chocolate bar and a traipse through a cornfield?