York Cocoa House
On my numerous visits to York Cocoa House I can now distinguish the differences between cacao, cocoa and chocolate! Each have a different definition - only to confuse one! I learnt the Obroma cacao is known as the food of the Gods. York ins known as The Chocolate City with chocolate genius legends; Joseph Rowntree and Noel Terry and still their legacy lives on with their chocolate products (though swallowed up by big impersonal and imperial commercial food producers!) and the sociology of the era with which shaped and shapes York yesterday and today.
Exploring York's chocolate history has given me a new perspective of the city. I have had the opportunity to go off the beaten track to appreciate the chocolatiers and their legacies that reign since then. So far I've done the general city's chocolate trail and one on Joseph Rowntree's life. I plan to do the Noel Terry's trail soon as I can.
You can't beat smelling the whiff of chocolate that greets me whenever I arrive at York's railway station!
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