Nel’s Reviews > The True History of Chocolate > Status Update

With only 150 employees (compared to Hershey’s thousands), Valrhona has working for it a full-time jury of ten who do nothing but sit and eat chocolate all day, testing new products.

so...how do i apply?

“the marquis de Sade’s palate was most keenly excited by pastry and sweets. He was capable of wolfing down frightening quantities…. Chocolate inspired an irresistible passion. He loved it in all its forms: in cream, in cakes, in ice cream, in bars”

why am i not surprised even that marquis was a chocoholic.

“If the intentions are not so benevolent, what up-scale chocolatiers refer to as “junk chocolate” will be manufactured, with only 15 percent of the product consisting of cacao solids, the remainder being sugar, milk solids, lecithin (an emulsifier), and sometimes cheaper solid vegetable fat; the valuable cacao butter is taken out and sold elsewhere.”

yeah this is why i never cheapen out when it comes to chockies