A Hot Chocolate Website In A Heat Wave..

We've finally launched the new Gracio Hot Chocolate website - in August! To do this at the time of year when a charity called Rapid Relief Team (RRT) gave out 15,000 free bottles of water to melting London commuters in one afternoon, hardly seems appropriate - but there you go!

Enjoy our new site at: www.gracio.co.uk where you can view and order our excellent 40% cocoa powder Gracio Gourmet Tins or handy Gracio Luxe 1-Cup hot chocolate sachets in 2 different weights and a Fairtrade version too.

Some notes on chocolate..

The enormous chocolate market of today – as a beverage, confectionery and in baking – has a long and fascinating history. Apparently traces of a chemical found in chocolate where found in ancient Mayan burial ground in Belize and some estimate the origins of chocolate to go back more than 4000 years!

Used by ancient central American civilisations as a drink and even as currency in cocoa bean form, modern soldiers as nourishment in rations and considered at some points in its long history to be a medicine with ‘cure-all’ abilities; chocolate’s appeal does not seem to be fading.

Funnily enough, it seems from our researches that for many years ‘chocolatl’ (as it was then called) was only available as a beverage (and an expensive one) and not in bar form – an innovation that awaited the developments pioneered by Messer’s Fry, Van Houton, Cadbury, Lindt and Nestle during the 19th century.

Gracio Hot Chocolate brings you outstanding hot chocolate drink in convenient formats for you and your customers to enjoy.

Call us on 0203 096 7233 for samples or visit the website - www.gracio.co.uk

See the Rapid Relief Team's website here: http://www.rapidreliefteam.org/