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28/07/2025

Well, it's official: I successfully combined chocolate & figure skating together, twice in one weekend!
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This past weekend I was in Christchurch to interview the mastermind behind the award-winning ...and compete in my first ice figure skating competition at the .ice.skating.club !

But what's more, I skated to a track from the Wonka movie and came away with silver! Supported all the while by my absolute rock of a husband . Huge shout out to for making such an epic cut of my music, and my awesome skate fam at for all your encouragement and support!

For more skate spam you can follow along at .

Interview with Mind Your Temper dropping on the blog theadventuresofellecoco.com soon - watch this space!

23/07/2025

Remeniscing about the time we passed through Central America’s smallest and most densely populated country on our Long Way South! After our Honduran Interlude, we made it to the only country in the world named directly after Jesus Christ – ‘El Salvador’ translates to ‘The Saviour’ in English.

We didn’t actually fly into El Salvador though, contrary to the title of my latest blog post 'Fly to El Salvador', we just caught the ‘chicken bus’ over from Honduras. But ever since listening to London indie rock band Athlete’s song lyrics to the aptly named ‘El Salvador’ on my bus journeys to school all those years ago, humming along to the lyrics “Fly to El Salvador, I don’t know why and I don’t know what for…”, I’d always had an urge to go to the place, to find out what the “what for” in the song they were always singing about actually was. So we decided to see if we could find out.

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21/07/2025

During our sojourn through the Americas; leaving the kak’ik (turkey stew), Atol de Elote (corn and cacao drink), picbil shawls and active volcano hikes behind us in Guatemala; we dipped in to Honduras, for the ancient Mayan site of Copan Ruinas, beautiful ruby red macaw parrots, ‘pupusas’, and yes, a little bit of chocolate!.

After all these years I finally finished that blog post last night, you can read more at the link in my bio. We had an absolute blast, and I'd love to go back one day!

Who else has been to Honduras, or maybe you work with Honduran cacao beans?

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15/07/2025

15.07.2022 I said 'I Do' to my adventure buddy for life, at Hampton Court Palace! But we actually have 3 anniversary dates, because we had 3 weddings - thanks Covid!!

12 years together, 3 years married, in 2 different countries!!

We've been a long long way together, through the hard times and the good, I have to celebrate you baby, I have to praise you like I should...and I always will. ❤️✨💃🏻🕺🏿💒

14/07/2025

This time last week I was gleefully rummaging through my photo archives to celebrate International Chocolate Day. Bringing back so many wonderful memories with so many beautiful friends. This picture stuck out as one of my favourites - so many happy chocolate industry peeps, the best memories and the best friends - celebrating in London after the Academy of Chocolate Awards ceremony in 2016. Sadly, last Tuesday, I learned one of those dear and beautiful friends, Zoë (of the sparkly gold dress) had passed away. This will take a while to process.

Zoë truly was one of a kind, she really always brought all the glitter, and all the vibes to anything and everything she did! We first met judging alongside each other at the 2016 Academy of Chocolate, then again at the AoC Awards (where this pic was taken) and we were so looking forward to catching up again. She was a deeply passionate foodie and strong advocate of fine craft chocolate.

She was loved by so, so many people and had so much love and enthusiasm for anything anyone was doing - especially if it was food or chocolate related.

The world, but more specifically the UK chocolate world, lost one of it's most sparkly and enthusiastic advocates last week, and my heart, like many others' is left with a very large Zoë shaped hole in it.

My heart goes out to Zoë's family & friends and those of us in the wider industry who were so close to her!

Fly high, darling! Keep leaving sparkles and laughter wherever you go! I'll catch you on the flip side gurl.

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07/07/2025

Happy World Chocolate Day everyone.

As the day draws to a close here in New Zealand, I know it's still in full swing in most of the rest of the world.

To celebrate, I thought I'd pull some pictures from the archives!

I feel incredibly privileged to have been a part of this industry for 16 years! From the days of corporate chocolate team building events, Chocolate Ecstasy Tours, and smuggling home-made chocolate truffles and cupcakes onto Madonna's movie sets (and nearly getting fired because of if), to working for William Curley and running collaborations with Laurent-Perrier, Harrods and Aston Martin. Then to setting up my own consultancy to spread the word of chocolate around the world - Paris, Seattle, Killyleagh, Grenada in the Caribbean, Georgia in the Caucasus, to bridge connections across continents, cultures and countries, and always, to learn, and leave the industry in a better position than when I found it.

There were so many amazing pictures to choose from, so many amazing friends who have been a part of this journey, and still many more to meet.

For this drop I decided to delve deep, all these pics are circa 2018!

07/07/2025

It's a vibe...chilling with the neighbour's cat last night 😂🐈🔥 ❤️

16/06/2025

Preparations underway for Midwinter-Christmas* this Matariki weekend. What am I making?

*Here in NZ it's winter now and I miss proper cold Christmases, so I'm bringing Ye Olde Yuletide to Aotearoa for a Matariki x Yuletide Mashup.

29/04/2025

I needed an early afternoon pick me up, this one seemed to fit the bill. One from the Chocolate Archives. Who else has a Chocolate Archive in their home study? I guess technically it means this one is aged.

15/03/2025

A few weekends back I not only had the pleasure of judging the chocolate category for the , but after the judging I also got to catch up with this legend! , founder of .cacao .

Fun Fact: what many of you probably don't know is that many many years ago in a far off land (London, UK) Tom & I used to chef together in the William Curley kitchen. We worked out the last time we'd seen each other in person was probably 2011. It seems like not a day has gone by since we were in that kitchen!

Tom now has his own hugely successful chocolate business. Drawing on not just his UK chocolate-making heritage and experience, but his strong Maori roots too!

I'm not biased when I say he really is one to watch, can't wait to see what he comes up with next!

How many of you have got amazing work friendships that have stood the test of time (and distance)?

22/02/2025

My co-judges for Day Two of judging chocolate at the ! Always such an honour getting amongst it and judging some top talent with some top talent in the food, beverage and culinary world here in New Zealand. Who would have thought fifteen years ago when I first set foot in an award-winning chocolate & pastry kitchen in greater London that one day I would be judging chocolate in New Zealand for such a prestigious awarding body!

21/02/2025

It's that time of year again!! Day One of Chocolate judging for the 2025 Outstanding Food Producer Awards. As usual we've had some truly knock out entries!! Bring on Day Two! 🍫🥰🏆

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