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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Annalisa Barbieri

Notes on chocolate: Ukraine’s hero chocolatiers

‘The flavours were all wonderful’: Meetty chocolate.
‘The flavours were all wonderful’: Meetty chocolate Photograph: v/PR IMAGE

A few weeks ago Felicity Spector, senior producer of Channel 4 News, contacted me. She’d just returned from another trip to Ukraine, could she send me some amazing chocolate she’d found there? This made me quite emotional for many reasons.

My answer was: of course. And a few days later a package arrived with some bean-to-bar Meetty chocolate that had come, via the C4 news desk in London, to me in Suffolk from Ukraine. What I was sent was the gift box, £25 plus shipping, that has won an Academy of Chocolate silver award. In this beautifully simple box there are 12 mini-bars of chocolate, each colourfully illustrated with examples of Ukrainian art and each weighing 24g, which is a perfect one-person portion and don’t let anyone tell you different.

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