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Speaker 1: Hello, Hello Lester. This week on the Luxury Lowdown, we

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Speaker 1: are dipping into the decadently luxurious land of chocolate, and

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Speaker 1: with Easter coming up, it is in fact our duty

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Speaker 1: to eat as much chocolate as humanly possible, so we

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Speaker 1: might as well do it in style. Historically, Easter eggs

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Speaker 1: have royal roots, reaching as far back as the eighteen

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Speaker 1: hundreds to Tsar Alexander the Third, who famously ordered Faberget

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Speaker 1: eggs every Easter for his wife as a gift. Designer

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Speaker 1: Peter Carl Faberget had total creative freedom, and often eggs

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Speaker 1: took a year to create and were encrusted with diamonds

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Speaker 1: and dipped in eighteen carrot gold, with a surprise hidden

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Speaker 1: at their yolks, symbolizing the extreme opulence of the Russian

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Speaker 1: Romanov dynasty. The most luxurious edible egg I could find

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Speaker 1: online is made by the famous Milan based chocolateer Marchesi

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Speaker 1: eighteen twenty four. It's a giant, dark chocolate sculptural egg

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Speaker 1: that stands at about seventy centimeters high, wawned in golden

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Speaker 1: crowns and draped in white chocolate ribbons, selling for seven

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty pounds at Harrod's in London. That's a

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Speaker 1: ridiculous sixteen thousand rand. The French luxury brand Dior has

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Speaker 1: collaborated this year with eighteen Michelin star chef Janik Aleno

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Speaker 1: to create a designer Easter egg draped in hand sculptured

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Speaker 1: bows and filled with bonbonds, selling for three thousand, six

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Speaker 1: hundred rand. Okay, so these eggs are obviously not for

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Speaker 1: hiding in the garden. They're the kind of eggs you

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Speaker 1: really need to hide well because you don't want your

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Speaker 1: kids to find them. Ever, Cape Town's chocolate game is

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Speaker 1: pretty impressive too when it comes to handmade producers and importers,

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Speaker 1: the likes of Lint, who is running a Lucky draw

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Speaker 1: at their stores this Easter to win an enormous meter

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Speaker 1: high stuffed lint bunny plush toy. Fricoa Chocolate is based

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Speaker 1: at Maker's Landing and offers a range of Easter hampers

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Speaker 1: and honest chocolate in Whale Street is selling a limited

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Speaker 1: edition chocolate caramel ganash and brownie egg. But if you're

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Speaker 1: after unique local luxury, Babylon's Turin have taken the cake

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Speaker 1: once again Miss Easter with their giant handmade Belgian chocolate

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Speaker 1: chicken called Spickles the Hen. She stands at twenty centimeters

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Speaker 1: high and thirty centimeters in length, and she arrives in

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Speaker 1: a box and a nest named after their beloved hen

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Speaker 1: Spickles from rit Fley. She's built to be smashed and shared,

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Speaker 1: and if her bounty of one thy two hundred rand

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Speaker 1: is out of your budget, don't fret. They're also doing

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Speaker 1: a beautiful range of more affordable Easter goodies like duck duck,

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Speaker 1: goose soot cookies, hatching speckled eggs, as well as offering

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Speaker 1: a huge Easter egg hunt on the farm on Easter

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Speaker 1: Sunday with a chance to discover a golden egg worth

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Speaker 1: thirty thousand rand of online shopping vouchers. You can go

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Speaker 1: to Babylonsturin dot com to find out more. And I'll

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Speaker 1: leave you with the thought that it really is the

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Speaker 1: simplest things in life that are the sweetest. So it's

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Speaker 1: a Easter from me, Leicester. I'll be out and about

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Speaker 1: luxury hunting until next week's Luxury Lowdown