If you follow me on social media you may well know that recently I was very excitingly invited by Thorntons to visit their chocolate factory in Derby. It's not everyday that I am asked to go and receive a lesson in being a chocolatier and have the opportunity to explore behind the scenes of such a top British chocolate brand, so of course I totally jumped at the chance.
I'm not really sure what I had expected before I got there, but one thing that really struck me was just how many people were working in the factory. I guess I had sort of expected to see just a lot of machinery and whilst there was plenty of impressive machinery in action, there were just as many people there working on making the chocolates as perfect as they could be. And it was impressive to see that a lot of what was being done was being done by hand and required skill. It was nice to see so many highly skilled chocolatier's in action clearly passionate about their jobs. It was clear that there was a real family feel to the factory.
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