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In 1977, pastry chef Robert Linxe opened the first La Maison du Chocolat in Paris. Linxe was trained as a chocolatier in Bayonne, France and Switzerland. He later opened three more boutiques within Paris in 1987–1989, with a boutique in New York City opening in 1990. In 1995, Geoffroy d’Anglejan was named general manager of La Maison du ...
Jacques Génin is a French chef, cookery book writer, and well-known chocolate and caramel maker in Paris. [1]He supplies chocolates, caramels and petits fours to more than 200 top French hotels and restaurants, including the Hôtel de Crillon, the Plaza Athénée and Le Meurice. [2]
Jean-Paul Hévin (born 10 December 1957 in Méral, Mayenne, France) is a French manufacturer of high-end chocolate, who operates 6 stores in Paris, 11 in Japan, 1 in Hong Kong, and 2 stores in Taipei headquartered in Paris. [1]
This is a list of notable chocolatiers. A chocolatier is a person or business who makes confectionery from chocolate . Chocolatiers are distinct from chocolate makers, who create chocolate from cacao beans and other ingredients.
Pierre Hermé (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ɛʁme]; born 20 November 1961) is a French pastry chef and chocolatier. He began his career at the age of 14 as an apprentice to Gaston Lenôtre. Called "the Picasso of Pastry" by Vogue, Hermé was awarded the title of World's Best Pastry Chef in 2016 by The World's 50 Best Restaurants. [1]
He later returned to Paris to work as an executive pastry chef at the Hugo & Victor patisserie and chocolate shop; he reached the level of executive chef by the age of 21. [6] In 2013, Guichon was a contestant on the France 2 reality cooking series Who will be the next great pastry chef? (French: Qui sera le prochain grand pâtissier?). He was ...
In 1816, Antoine Brutus Menier founded the Menier Hardware Company in Paris. Although not trained as a pharmacist , he began preparing and selling a variety of powders for medicinal purposes. The business grew rapidly but for the first few years the company's production of chocolate was very limited, as its primary usage was as a medicinal ...
The later built in 1857 a factory powered by a steam engine, located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. He was awarded a bronze medal at the Universal Exposition of Art and Industry of Paris in 1867. Around this time, a type of advertising trading card, called chromos after the chromolithography printing process, was used by the company. In ...