DR EMMA ROBERTSON

Q. TELL US WHAT SPARKED YOUR INTEREST IN THE HISTORY OF CHOCOLATE?

A. Growing up in York, home to the Rowntree’s and Terry’s confectionery companies, I was surrounded by chocolate. The smell of chocolate often wafted through the air! I knew lots of family and friends who worked at the factories and an early memory is of queueing up to buy so-called ‘waste chocolate’ outside Rowntree’s. My grandmother always had a stash of waste chocolates in her sideboard – KitKats with no wafers were a special prize if you could find them! But as well