Islands Chocolate is one of the speciality drinking chocolate companies asking baristas to step up their game of their chocolate drinks. Based on my experience at Islands, and our recent collaboration with Semilla Escuela Cacao, Cacao Bisiesto, and Coffee by TATE (the roastery of the most famous modern and contemporary art institution and museum in the UK who focuses on empowering women across the coffee and now cocoa supply chains), I would like to showcase how drinking chocolate with the right sourcing, messaging, and flavour could be the driver for the future of chocolate. Ideally, the audience should takeaway that we need to use the langauge, knowledge, and curiosity that characterises people in the coffee scene, and work alongside coffee proffesionals to elevate the world of crraft chocolate from the cafe. At the same time, hopefully this presentation will spotlight what is happening in the UK chocolate movement.
