Why Belgian Chocolate Is So Good - Three reasons Belgian chocolate has become so famous for its quality the world over. read more
Unsurprisingly also just like everywhere else the better the quality, in general, the smaller the supply and the narrower the distribution, so if you find the label ‘Belgian’ applied to chocolate not actually bought in Belgium as opposed to produced there, it’s unlikely to be better than or even as good as certain others you might find locally. read more
For this reason, we were one of the first countries to come up with machines which could mix the cocoa beans really thin so that the chocolate was extremely smooth. Another example of this Belgian innovation was the process created by Jean Neuhaus in 1912 when he developed a way to make a cold shell of chocolate for what he called ‘pralines’. read more