It didn’t take long to see that everything we’d heard about Belgian chocolate was true. They say that everyone in Belgium eats some chocolate every day. There were more chocolate shops than I could count. One every street, on every corner, in every part of the city we found chocolate.
This is the Royal Gallery, one of the oldest covered malls, built in 1846-47. There were chocolatiers throughout the gallery, one specialty shop after the next.
Jean Neuhaus is the founder of one of the most respected and delicious chocolate companies in Belgium. He started as a pharmacist. He started coating his medicines with chocolate to make them easier to swallow. Before long, more people were coming to buy chocolate from him than medicine. He made the decision to change his profession and he became a master chocolate maker.
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