 While the Belgian and Swiss were making truffles, using pralines and hazelnut in their chocolate, an Irish chocolatier was fusing the traditional with the new, taking English and Irish desert recipes such as sticky toffee pudding and lemon meringue pie - making them into chocolates and giving them a new twist.
IMAGE Irish Businesswoman of the Year, Mary Ann O'Brien joins Martha Kearney to discuss how her chocolate company grew from her kitchen where she was armed with just a pair of saucepans and a wooden spoon. Martha finds out why chocolate is good for you and why Mary Ann founded a charity to treat terminally ill babies. |
