The Chefs
Paul Da-Costa-Greaves
Master Chef of Great Britain Paul Da Costa Greaves is a chef with a difference. Extraordinarily talented and inventive, he combines a magical approach to making and preparing food with great people skills. Colourful, funny and highly original, he brings the most everyday cooking experience to life.
About Paul Da-Costa-Greaves:
`Born in Liverpool, I consist of a cheeky honest mix, reminiscent of natural northern spice. The initial explosive burst of personality & flair is followed through with a wild imagination, delicately layered with sensual middle notes, being excitable, entertaining, inviting, spontaneous, seductive & devilish. Essences of rose, lavender, frankincense & myrrh round off this striking pleasure. I have often been described as colourful, occasionally funny but highly original. I have been told I cook like `a male version of Nigella Lawson`, yet verbally rough like Paul O`Grady! I bring even the most everyday cooking experience to life - dinner parties take on an epic grandeur and picnic brunches become terrifically fun events. I enjoy Talking, Cooking, ‘More Talking’, Socialising, the odd rum & coke at a party or two, theatre when I get time, and a good aerobics class in my past life. Currently working with the cycle of the moon phase for different energies, remembering a new moon is a time of energy & enthusiasm`
Paul has been a chef for twenty years and is now based in Topsham, Devon where his Galley Restaurant is one of the most prized in the area and last year won the “Best Restaurant in Devon and the South West” award. His specialities include fish, vegetarian food and West Indian Cuisine. He says “It is all about creating dreams and feeding the imagination.”
Born in Liverpool of an English Mother and West Indian Father Paul Da Costa Greaves was brought up on a varied diet that included jerk chicken, rice ‘n’ peas and plantain and from this early age his eyes were opened to the world of spices and from the age of four he knew that he wanted to be a chef.
Paul is a Spiritual Healer and an Alternative Therapist and runs his kitchen under the guidance of Zen. He considers cooking to be his art. Paul has developed a range of products – visit www.feeding-your-imagination.co.uk and already it is an award-winning company – the products include a range of fabulous organic essential oil chocolate bars which have been made to unique recipes and flavours include Sexy Chilli, Dreamy Lemon and Geranium.
Paul regularly demonstrates at major food exhibitions and the Exeter Food Festival.
Follow the link below to watch Paul discuss his chocolate range:
http://www.itvlocal.com/westcountry/news/?player=WCT_news_26&void=146359
Quotes re Paul’s Chocolate bar ‘Sexy Chilli’
SKY NEWS
New Sexy Chocolate Bar - a new chocolate bar which claims to help you lose weight and boost your love life is on sale in the UK. The Sexy Bar is packed with cocoa solids and ground chilli. Both ingredients are said to act as an aphrodisiac. And the chilli also boosts the metabolism, which helps burn fat.
The Sun
Chocolate is a Sex-cess! `It`s organic, it`s innovative, it`s beautifully presented and I`d rather eat this quality of chocolate now and again than lower grade stuff on a daily basis`. Catherine Sleep - Food Critic
SAWF News
A libido-boosting chocolate that also battles the bulge! Now this sounds too good to be true, a chocolate bar which help you lose weight and boosts your love life, has been devised. “It’s a taste experience — just four pieces are enough to have an effect.”
Food Navigator
Sexy’ chilli chocolate hits market - Paul Da Costa Greaves has found a unique way to target the growing functional confectionery market, mixing aromatherapy with chocolate. His Feeding Your Imagination company has launched a variety of chocolate bars containing oils which claim to boost mood, sex drive and energy levels and carry intriguing names such as ‘Dreamy`, ‘Sexy` and ‘Sensual`. As well as being health-driven, functional products, the chocolate bars also tap into ethical consumer concerns by using organic cocoa.
Gulf Daily News
Chocolate better than Viagra!
VIAGRA may heat up one`s sex drive, but chocolate can make it sizzle. So says Dr Dora Akunyili, the director of Nigeria`s Federal Agency for Food and Medicine. The report, produced by Nigeria`s national committee for the development of cocoa, refers to the marketing campaign of a British company `Feeding Your Imagination` has launched a product line of six energy chocolate bars containing essential oils said to enhance one`s mood, and especially one`s sexual appetite
Fox News
Britain`s `Feeding Your Imagination` has launched a line of six chocolate energy bars that promise to get you in the mood with food. And if essential oils and bits of chocolate goodness aren`t enough to float your boat, these bars have alluring names like Sexy, Beautiful, Dreamy, Fantastic, Sensual and Lovely to boot.
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