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The West Dorset Magazine, April 8, 2022
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PoCo makes us By Karen Bate newsdesk@westdorsetmag.co.uk
With Easter around the corner there is no better time to dive into the delicious world of chocolate. Enter Helen Dent, the passionate chocolatier who is creating chocolate alchemy from her ‘PoCo’ kitchen in Dorchester. PoCo Chocolate began in 2020, amidst the mayhem of the coronavirus pandemic and a redundancy from a senior position at the RNLI, but the seeds of a career in chocolate were sown a year before, when Helen took a trip to Switzerland to visit her best friend. Helen said: “My best friend lives in Switzerland so my husband, daughter and myself went on a road trip
to visit her in Lausanne. We went via Luxembourg on the way, and Brussels on the way home. Our son Monty was studying and so was unable join us and so, feeling guilty, we decided to placate him with chocolate from every stopover. This was no hardship in fact, it was fabulous! “We fell in love with the beautiful shops on our travels, the way the chocolate is crafted and presented. We eat with our eyes. It is harder to find chocolate like that over here, so when I was made redundant our Swiss journey kept returning to my thoughts. “My husband bought me a chocolatier’s course, so I could learn to make chocolate and my gosh, it was intense.”
