In search of big flavours on the Jurassic Coast

Yesterday evening we went to see Jurassic World Rebirth, which featured children hiding in cabinets against which dinosaurs’ cold-blooded breath somehow steamed up the glass. Afterwards we walked home, all the way from Bournemouth, along the promenade, watching the day’s sea-dwellers emerge salty and reddened, hurrying into their Dryrobes. (The current fashion seems to be for the ponchos rather than the coats.)

Yesterday, my friend Hester bought me some chocolate from the posh deli up the road. It’s made up the coast in Cornwall, by Kernow. The chocolate needs more oomph for me, but you may like it. The Dark Chocolate Ginger is only 55%: too weak a cocoa content for my palate to present the sweet, crystallised ginger to its full potential.

This is a range for the sweeter toothed among you. The milk chocolate bars sit in the mid-30s and although there is a 70% dark the ‘dark’ bars are 55%. But, some gorgeous flavours here, and wonderful packaging. The Cream Tea bar, milk with pieces of biscuit and strawberry-flavoured jelly, is my favourite with what looks like a Fiat 500 on the wrapper. Perfect little presents to take home and, at £3.95, this is small scale-made, albeit not craft chocolate.