Pierre Marcolini launches ice cream collection for summer

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Dutch chocolate company Tony’s Chocolonely is one company calling out the appalling practice, highlighting the scandalous conditions in plain words on their packaging and with their tagline, “making chocolate 100% exploitation free”. In the foreword to Marcolini’s book Belgian Chocolate: Bean to Bar Generation, food journalist and co-writer Michel Vinerdlin laments the term “dark chocolate” to describe a bitter-tasting alternative to “milk chocolate”. open image in gallery Pierre Marcolini’s summer ice cream collection He seems to speak to a conspiracy perpetuated by mass-produced chocolate companies to dilute the meaning of chocolate, that was once, despite being rooted in colonialism, a meticulous craft. Pierre Marcolini has a summer ice cream collection I tasted smokey notes in an 85% cacao praline, sweet and sharp raspberry in the shape of a red heart praline and a meltingly soft chocolate-coated vanilla marshmallow as part of the brand’s summer collection, which also includes ice cream and cakes.