An Exciting New Collaboration

Two of the UK's best loved artisan food personalities are collaborating to create a range of chocolates made with the finest teas.

Henrietta Lovell from The Rare Tea Company and Paul Young of Paul a Young Fine Chocolates have long admired each others products and have been working together over the past few months to produce an exceptional range of tea chocolates and bars.

They each represent the very peak of their trades achieving the highest standards in quality and most importantly taste. Henrietta personally sources her teas from small mountain tea gardens with centuries of tradition and fierce pride in their products. Paul uses only the very best chocolate blended with seasonal ingredients, hand producing each of his award winning creations.

Paul & Henrietta will be launching a new chocolate each month for the remainder of 2010.

4th Birthday

Paul a Young Fine Chocolates is celebrating its 4th Birthday this weekend, the anniversary of the opening of the first shop on Camden Passage in Islington.

To celebrate, every customer who comes into the shop on Saturday or Sunday will receive a free Birthday truffle piped with the number 4. Paul will also be baking and decorating a chocolate Birthday cake, which will take centre stage in a Birthday party window display.

It’s been an incredible 4 years for the business, starting with the ‘Best New Chocolate Shop’ award at The Academy of Chocolate Awards in early 2007. Many other awards followed for Paul’s wonderful creations, both from the Academy and at the Great Taste Awards, most especially for Paul’s sea salted caramel chocolate. Paul and his business partner, James Cronin, opened a second shop at Royal Exchange in the City in 2007 and in 2009 Paul’s first book was published, ‘Adventures with Chocolate’. The book was re-printed within a month of release and won Best Chocolate Book in the World at the Gourmand World Book Awards in Paris. Over the past few years Paul has won critical acclaim for his chocolates, he is true to the flavour of his ingredients, developing combinations that are often daring but always perfectly balanced. He has even courted controversy for his innovative creations, none more so than for his marmite truffles, which are hugely popular with his customers and one of his best selling products.

Paul a Young Fine Chocolates is consistently included in features on the best Chocolate Shops in the UK and is frequently referred to as one of the best in the World. So, there’s plenty to celebrate this weekend at Paul a Young Fine Chocolates, pop in to see us and enjoy a free Birthday truffle.

Rare Tea Chocolates

Paul is proud to announce a new collaboration with Henrietta Lovell of The Rare Tea Company. Paul will be creating a new tea ganache each month with Henrietta's stunning and very rare teas.

These precious teas are personally sourced by founder Henrietta Lovell from small mountain tea gardens with centuries of tradition and fierce pride in their teas. Hand-produced by skilled artisans, the teas retain the freshest flavours and the highest levels of antioxidants. Produced in tiny quantities they are the very best available anywhere in the world today .

February's tea ganache will be Lost Malawi. This strong, dark tea comes from a small Fairtrade estate high in the mountains of Malawi. Deep and satisfying it is the perfect afternoon tea with such a rich complexity of flavour its like drinking tea in 3-D.

It's called Lost Malawi because it's the sort of tea our grandparents drank. They’ve been quietly crafting it on a small farm for generations. Lost Malawi is the antithesis of modern industrial blends. It's a rich black tea that goes well with milk – perfect breakfast or afternoon tea. We hope this will be the one which really converts the world to proper loose-leaf tea.

Best Hot Chocolate in London

Paul's hot chocolate has been voted the best in London by the About.com guide.

Click here to read the full article.

World Cookbook Awards

Paul was delighted to learn that his first book, Adventures with Chocolate, has won the award for Best Chocolate Book in the UK heat of this year's World Cookbook Awards.

To find out more about the book, or to order a copy,
please click here.

TCHO is here

Paul A. Young Fine Chocolates are pleased to announce that they are now the exclusive purveyors of TCHO chocolate products outside of the US.

We currently stock the full range of "Chocolatey", "Fruity", "Nutty" and "Citrus" bars.

www.tcho.com

Adventures with Chocolate

Renowned for his exquisite chocolate creations, Paul A Young has rightfully earned his reputation as one of the UK's finest artisan chocolatiers and to celebrate the launch of his new book he will be sharing his unsurpassed knowledge on chocolate, including tips on selection and suggestions for its use in cooking and baking.

Paul will demonstrate how to temper chocolate, make a classic ganache with infused essential oils. Recipes will include a Mint and cocoa nib infusion, Venezuelan chocolate chilli chicken and a Three point date and fig tarts with cumin syrup. Class includes compulsory chocolate tasting!

Divertimenti Cookery School
33 - 34 Marylebone High Street
London
W1U 4PT

Telephone: 020 7935 0689

Book now to avoid disappointment!

Paul appears on The Apprentice

"You're Hired!" Master Chocolatier, Paul A Young plays host to The Apprentice Finalists as they attempt to create a new brand of chocolate.

Paul A Young, a leading British chocolatier, who is also ranked in the world's Top 10, was hired by Sir Alan to help one of the teams create a new brand of chocolate. The final task, which was broadcast on BBC1 on Sunday June 7th at 9pm, saw Kate Walsh and Yasmina Siadatan go head-to-head in an all-girl final to create, brand and market a new box of chocolates.

Paul advised on the flavour combinations, ingredients and type of chocolate to use, so that Kate and her team could work together to produce a fantastic range of chocolates with delicious and creative flavours that were described as "Excellent" by Sir Alan.

The show received 9.8 million viewers.

Easter 2009

For Easter this year Paul has collaborated with jewellery designer Kirt Holmes to create an exclusive limited edition gift.

Set on a large bar of etched chocolate sits half an egg decorated with 24-carat gold leaf. Inside the egg is an exclusive Kirt Holmes necklace.

Kirt and Paul are both independent artisanal producers who have a passion for their crafts resulting in them each being leaders in their fields. This wonderful Easter gift is limited to only 50 eggs and costs £95.00

Kirt’s work is best described as modern vintage, blending semi-precious stones and luxury materials. Kirt has previously worked on accessorised collections for Givenchy, Dries Van Noten, Ungaro and Matthew Williamson.

Now working under her own label, Kirt Holmes Jewellery, from her shop in Camden Passage, Islington, she continues to create jewellery for designers including Preen and Nicole Farhi.

Kirt is one of only a handful of jewellery designers who make their product in the UK and her work regularly appears in Vogue, Harpers Bazaar and the Financial Times. High profile clients include actresses Charlize Theron and Scarlett Johansson.

This very special Easter egg will be available from both of Paul’s chocolate boutiques and from Kirt’s Camden Passage shop, opposite Paul’s chocolaterie.

www.kirtholmes.com
tel: 020 7226 1080

St. Patrick's Day

In honour of St. Patrick's Day (17^th March), Paul is pleased to announce the return of his famous real Guinness truffles.

This year's new improved recipe simply blends real Guinness and 70% Valrhona chocolate to create a rich and mouth-watering truffle, finished with white chocolate decoration.

Academy of Chocolate Awards

Paul is delighted to have enjoyed further success at the 2009 Academy of Chocolate awards:

Gold Award
Black Cardamom and Chinese Stem Ginger Pave
Best flavoured dark chocolate

Gold Award
Original Aztec Hot Chocolate
Best hot chocolate

Silver Award
10 year old Scotch Whisky Truffle
Best filled praline

Silver Award
Sea-salted Almond Rocher
(64% Madagascar chocolate)
Best filled praline

Silver Award
Chuao Dark Chocolate Truffle
Best dark truffle

Bronze Award
Stem Ginger and Fennel Seed Pavé
Best Flavoured Milk Chocolate Bar

Bronze Award
Mango and Sichuan pepper
Best filled praline

Bronze Award
Los Ancones 67% Truffle
Best dark chocolate truffle

Valentine's Day 2009

Paul’s Valentine collection evokes romance and brings the style of a contemporary chocolatier to the most romantic celebration of the year. It’s all hearts and flowers at both of his London chocolateries with chocolate roses and solid deep red hearts.

• Paul will be offering his unique Chocolate Roses infused with essential oil of English rose. 66% pure trinitario dark chocolate with a red pearlescent finish or white chocolate. £9.95 per stem
• Red Heart Gift Box. Two solid hearts in either milk or dark chocolate, one large and one small, both finished in provocative deep red with an ‘I love you’ scroll. Presented in a sultry black box with black tissue. £25.00
• Love Heart Cube. A clear cube filled with milk, dark and white chocolate hearts. Approx 100g. Perfect as a gift or to scatter and create a romantic mood. £10.95

Alternatively, a box of Paul’s award winning chocolates never fails to impress. Paul’s wonderful chocolates are unlike any others. He is true to the flavours of his ingredients, he is experimental and creative, developing flavour combinations that are original and sometimes daring yet perfectly balanced.

In February Paul’s seasonal chocolate and truffle collection will include, passion fruit and vanilla, black raspberry liqueur truffle, black cherry and kirsch, sultry Ancho chilli truffle, real Pink champagne truffles and English rose ganache. We’ve also got filled chocolates for the men; Woodford reserve caramels, Glenmorangie whisky truffle, London pride ale and tobacco ganache.

Sea Salted Caramel Bar

Paul has taken his multi-award winning Sea Salted Caramel and paired it with Valrhona 64% Madagascan chocolate in a new and indulgent filled bar.

The 50g bar will be available from January 11th in both London boutiques

£4.50 per bar.

Cocoa Nib Chai Infusion

An exciting new addition for 2009:
Cocoa Nib Chai Infusion

Pauls own recipe blended on the premises with pure cracked cocoa nibs, ginger, cinnamon bark, cloves, star anise and fennel seeds.

An exciting and new alternative to hot chocolate with a cleansing yet warming finish.

The Flavour of the infusion will change seasonally.

A 90g box makes 10 to 12 cups.

£6.95