Short Cuts
Apropos our recent link to Dallas Foods’ sublime critique of Noka chocolate, friend of WYWG Tom sent us this piece by John Lanchester on Kraft’s hostile bid to take over Cadbury.
The Roald Dahl quote regarding the revolution in chocolate-making during the ’30s is particularly good:
According to Roald Dahl: ‘In music, the equivalent would be the golden age of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. In painting, it was the equivalent of the Italian Renaissance and the advent of Impressionism at the end of the 19th century; in literature, Tolstoy, Balzac and Dickens.’ Cheap chocolate is one of the things that this country used to be very, very good at.
