Henri Nestlé
The pharmacist who invented infant formula and then casually helped kick-start the milk chocolate revolution – because why stop at saving babies when you can also sweeten adulthood?
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10 August 1814
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Pharmacist, confectioner
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Free City of Frankfurt (Germany) – Switzerland
#lessons
Even food can become history when there is collaboration.
#quotes
"It is not enough to make the product, you also have to get it known and approved by doctors and the general public; you have to fight ingrained habits and prejudices, and that’s no small thing [...]."
@book
No Summer, No Money, Big Dreams
How are bicycles and milk chocolate related? Why would they hardly appear if not for a volcano eruption somewhere in Indonesia? Were they three men in a boat or on a bike, and what was the life plan of the man who told their story?