i've spent today getting together a list of shop owners and managers that i miss. it's quite long! when i used to have more time, after esme started school and while i was still pregnant with elsie, i loved ringing around our shops to chat to customers of cocoa bean who had become more like friends over the years.since having elsie, i often only find time to email in the evening which is useful but functional: i send price lists, statements, forward food or chocolate news and press releases but i'm missing the real hot chocolate gossip!
today i discovered that helen falvey, a veteran cocoa bean chocolatier, is working in sheridans cheesemongers in galway. hooray! i think this will be a brilliant place to start on my mission to reconnect with the food obsessives of ireland. then i'd love a proper chat with grainne in chocolat, ennis and anne in butterslip, kilkenny.
so, here's to elsie settling for her lunchtime sleep, to a tall mug of chilli chocolate (alright, so it's not only for breakfast) and some good old fashioned gossip...
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