Charles-Amédée Kohler

He looked at a cocoa bean and saw not just dessert but destiny. A master of Swiss chocolate before it was mass-produced, he was a business-savvy cocoa alchemist who truly cared about delicacy and taste.

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15 June 1790
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Entrepreneur, chocolatier
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Switzerland

#lessons

Behind every world-class industry, there is usually one man who said,
“I wonder what happens if I throw this in?”


#whatif

...there were a Nobel Prize in confectionery?


He would win one for the discovery of a taste potentially leading to global addiction.🌰🍫


@book

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