Harrods Mocha Hot Chocolate drink

This is a powdered chocolate drink in a very snazzy metallic purple tin - 200g of chocolate powder for £9.99.  Despite instructions on the back of the tin, one heaped teaspoon makes a mugful of seriously yummy chocolate drink.  (Heat up the milk in a pan, using a little milk in the mug mix up with the teaspoon of chocolate powder into a paste, and then pour on the hot milk).  This has a very obvious mocha coffee flavour, and the drink reminds me of the 70% (and over) chocolate bars - not sweet but not overly bitter either.

VERY tasty and worth the price!

This can be purchased online here Harrods Mocha Chocolate 
This item is no longer available due to rebranding (as of March 2017)

Book Review - The Girl in the Picture

The Girl in the Picture

by Denise Chong

published by Scribner

ISBN 0-7432-0703-3

This is the story of Kim Phuc - "The Girl In The Picture" taken on 8 June 1972 near a small village in Vietnam just after a napalm attack.  The most defining image of the time, directly affecting public opinion of the Vietnam war.
It starts with how the photo came to be taken and follows Kim on her physical recovery, her University education via Cuba and her manipulation by the Communist regime of the time.  It also tells of her ultimate defection to the West and her work for UNESCO.
This is an incredible book and provides a remarkable insight into a remarkable woman surviving the worst and succeeding in an amazing way.

Go get a copy.

Today.