Classic Grenada Chocolate Radio Ads

Thanks to a sharp eyed reader, it was pointed out that there were a few broken links on our Media page. We had these all along but they somehow got lost during the transfer from Mott’s original site, so for old times sake and to celebrate their re-discovery, we present the recovered audio files here:

Smilo Original


Smilo One


Smilo Two


Smilo Three


(music and lyrics by Akima Paul and Mott Green)
Nibalicious One


Nibalicious Two


(written by Eric Chocolates and performed by his band KISS KISS KILL, Stephen Bluhm and others)

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Why the Grenada Chocolate Company is the pride of the Caribbean – Telegraph

Mott

The Grenada Chocolate Company is just a house, painted in bold Caribbean colours, over the road from the prime minister’s modest residence. The only difference from the other wooden houses in the street are the solar panels among the palms in the front garden, and a huge home-made solar dryer where Green is experimenting with drying bananas.

The doors are open; Caribbean breezes, the same winds that will carry the Tres Hombres around the Azores to Britain, waft over a wooden veranda.

Former bedrooms and living rooms are home now to a mixture of antique, home-made and very 21st-century chocolate processing machinery. Green himself sleeps on a mattress in the corner of a staff coat room. The only air-conditioning is in the tiny moulding and wrapping room, which also serves as storage for the finished bars, each one embellished with a hand-written best-before date.

via Why the Grenada Chocolate Company is the pride of the Caribbean – Telegraph.

Mott Green, 47, Dies; Founded Grenada Chocolate – NYTimes.com

Mr. Green founded the Grenada Chocolate Company in 1999.

Its slogan was “tree to bar,” but that did not capture the breadth of the endeavor. Working with small cocoa farmers in Grenada and as many as 50 factory employees during peak operations, all of whom earned the same salary — and probably more than he did — Mr. Green dried cocoa beans in the sun; built, maintained and powered the machinery to make chocolate; packaged the finished product; and cobbled together an international network of distributors, including volunteer cargo cyclists in the Netherlands.

In 2011, the company received recognition from the State Department for its “contribution to the sustainable growth of rural economies by establishing Grenadian products in international markets; pioneering agrotourism; outstanding environmental conservation efforts; and promotion of organic farming.”

via Mott Green, 47, Dies; Founded Grenada Chocolate – NYTimes.com.