Wine Rack by Richard Parmiter via the Londonist Flickr pool This month we thought we’d give you an excuse to talk about something other than the general election results by highlighting some of the wine-related events happening in the capital this May. Whether you want …
Photo of Ben and Jerry by Chris Osburn In town for their Free Cone Day ice cream give away, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield (more popularly known as Ben & Jerry) took the opportunity to announce their commitment to go 100% Fairtrade. By 2012, every …
Old hippie ways die hard. Beardie Weirdies Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield (the dairy baron co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s) will be at Leicester Square on Thursday the 18th from 10am to noon hosting a “unique day” of comedy, music, giveaways, FREE ice cream and …
Jollof Pot’s Albert Mensah-Tandoh speaking about the role food and cooking play in Ghanaian culture. Photography by Chris Osburn To highlight Cadbury Dairy Milk’s move to using Fairtrade cocoa from Ghana exclusively, Cadbury, the Underground Cookery School and Ghanaian catering company, Jollof Pot, threw a …
Over the weekend, the Royal Lancaster Hotel offered a Fairtrade Banana Afternoon Tea with a selection of freshly prepared Fairtrade banana finger sandwiches, “banana fancies”, and a choice from a selection of Fairtrade teas. The introduction of this especially a-peel-ing menu coincided with the end …
Image by Tsja! under a Creative Commons licence. London Fashion Week kicks off today – albeit in reduced form. It’s down to just five days after New York pushed its fashion showcase back a week (the rotters). London Fashion Working Week, perhaps? And despite catwalk …
As mentioned in our preview earlier this week, Divine Chocolate is celebrating its 10th anniversary with an exhibition of photographs from their worker co-owned Kuapa Kokoo cocoa farm in Ghana. The free exhibition is now open to the public (but sadly closes on the 9th) …
To celebrate their tenth year anniversary in the Fairtrade chocolate business, Divine Chocolate (co-owned by Kuapa Kokoo, a co-operative of 45,000 cocoa farmers in Ghana) is to host an exhibition of photographs which give insight into the lives of the Kuapa Kokoo farmers and follows …
Sounds impressive, huh? Well, the fact that 1,000 retailers and 600 catering outlets in the capital signed up to the campaign and now sell products which carry the Fairtrade mark is quite an achievement. Museums, the Houses of Parliament and the Metropolitan Police are among …
What? More chocolate? Hey, Londonist is milking Chocolate Week for all it’s worth! Last night, we checked out the Divine Chocolate’s chocolate and wine tasting at Notting Hill’s Bumpkin restaurant. Yum. But hey, it wasn’t that decadent. Divine Chocolate is all Fairtrade chocolate and the …
Cupcakes? Did somebody say cupcakes? Delivered to your door between the hours of 10am and 5pm? With prices starting from £1.90 per cupcake and a delivery charge of £9.50 for a minimum order of a dozen anywhere in central London (the map they link to …
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