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Ray quickly learned he couldn’t work with chocolate the way Picking had, so he ended up buying a machine to melt and temper the chocolate. One tradition Ray did continue was hand-dipping.

Their shop in Kifissia is spare but tasteful, with a large case displaying their thin slabs of chocolate, broken into irregular pieces, and decorations framed by their elegant beige, black and white packaging. You can see the area where they make their chocolate to the rear, laying it out on a long metal table, and they don’t mind you watching either.

Special Treats’ products are sourced from nonprofits that employ people with disabilities. Main supplier Chocolate Spectrum is run by a professional chocolatier in Florida who is also a speech and language therapist and an autism expert. Her disabled employees receive training and help turn out the gourmet truffles that line Special Treats’ display case, including flavors like dulce de leche, coconut lime, and blueberry lemon. Pennsylvania’s Highland Chocolates primarily employs with people with Down Syndrome and produces treats like almond bark, pretzel bark, and the uber-popular Tree Stumps, chocolate-covered mini pretzels sandwiching caramel and peanut butter.

"It all started over a year earlier. She spent the whole of December off school with chicken pox, scarlet fever and tonsilitis all in a row, so we couldn’t celebrate Christmas," explains Hannah.

The Pentagon’s predilection for choosing needlessly complex and expensive weapons not only threatens to bankrupt the nation’s treasury, it also imperils the national defense by producing a diminishing and far more fragile military force.

For those looking to cook the traditional roast veggies, such as carrots, onions, potatoes and pumpkin, cooking times will generally fall between 30 and 45 minutes at a temperature of 220°C.

1 Heat oven to 375 degrees on convection or 400 degrees on conventional. Line a baking sheet with foil.

Get the full recipes below for her versions of baked chicken wings, chicken meatballs, butternut squash and pesto salad, Black-eyed pea salad, and that delicious caramel cake below.

Professing himself a ‘Zen failure’, psychiatrist Brendan Kelly decided on a taste of his own medicine and took up meditation for a year, on a quest of self-betterment. While he realises that finding inner peace, even in just meditating for 15 minutes a day, is as straightforward as he anticipated; the distractions were more plentiful than he bargained for. A funny and insightful book on meditation and our chase for inner contentment.