Chocolate Unwrapped at The Real Food Festival

If you love chocolate then The Real Food Festival 2010 at Earl’s Court is the place to be this weekend where Chocolate Unwrapped will have a dedicated area filled with the very best chocolate companies.

Chocolate Unwrapped is a dedicated chocolate show, organised as part of Chocolate Week, which takes place every October. At the Real Food Festival the Chocolate Week team have invited the best UK chocolatiers along with new international chocolate companies to take part.

Highlights of Chocolate Unwrapped include:

• Talks from William Curley, Gerard Coleman from Artisan du Chocolat, Paul a Young, Sara Jayne Stanes and Keith Hurdman, head chocolatier at Thorntons.

• Artisan British chocolate producer Duffy Sheardown launches his chocolate at the show. Duffy joins Willie Harcourt-Cooze as one of only two chocolate producers in the UK - try his wonderful chocolate for the very first time.

• Paul Wayne Gregory launches his sea salted caramel lollipops at the show. They’ve already won acclaim from The Observer’s Jay Rayner, come and try them for yourself.

• Available only at The Real Food Festival - Original Beans and Sun Trigg of Lauden Chocolates, the UK’s leading female chocolatier, have collaborated to develop the first series of truffles using Original Bean’s Piura 75% couverture made from an exceptional white criollo bean discovered in the foothills of the Peruvian Andes. Since 2008, Original Beans has brought this cocoa variety back from the brink of extinction.

The Real Food Festival is much, much more than a just a food event, or farmer’s market - it’s packed with activities for the whole family and provides a unique platform for hundreds of smaller producers. The chocolate companies exhibiting are Artisan du Chocolat, William Curley, Paul Wayne Gregory, Thorntons, Ooh La La, Co Couture, Lauden, Original Beans, Auberge du Chocolat, Askinosie, The Chocolate Boutique Hotel, Duffy Sheardown and Chocoholly.

Other highlights of the festival include the world-renowned chef Raymond Blanc at the chef theatre, cookery workshops and some very friendly livestock – including Petal, the water buffalo from Laverstoke Park. With over 400 fantastic producers to choose from, come along and sample everything from handmade farmstead cheeses to slow reared British meats, beautiful breads, sustainable locally sourced seafood, the freshest fruit and vegetables and much, more

The Real Food Festival is at Earls Court from 7th-10th May 2010 – see realfoodfestival.co.uk.