Tuesday 5 November 2013

Monika Erb

Monika Erb - by Nigel A JAMES

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Sweet Encounter


When people return from far away places they usually bring back a reminder of long lazy days doing nothing! But, that which Monika Erb brought back from Sri-Lanka was not only a look back to leisure on the beach, but something irresistible as well! A key to a dark and bitter-sweet world.

It was 2011. Monika was taking in a late afternoon dose of pure southern sunshine when she noticed a girl who was chewing some unusual white beans, and so, with one being curious and the other one anxious to tell, the two were soon locked in lengthy discussion; and, it was all about chocolate!

Julie, it turned out, had just started a chocolate business in Munich and was touring the world in search of ingredients for her new brand of chocolate. And her search had led her to Sri-Lanka, for it was there that she was able to find dried cocoa beans, which unlike roasted beans retain all of their natural vitamins, minerals and antioxidants when worked and turned into chocolate. In other words just right for her brand new product!

And Julie's new sugar free emotion exploder is not to be found in the shops, it is made by the consumers themselves in chocolate clubs. And now, thanks to a sweet encounter in a far away place, Monika has become Julie's first chocolate workshop trainer.

And, these workshops are special. They are for creative people who believe that art isn't only for admiring, but for eating as well! And Monica's monthly meetings in Vienna are catching on fast. Sweet tasting temptation, it seems, is hard to resist!

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