Belgian Chocolatier Crowned Best Pastry Chef In The World

“We are in a gloomy period … I think the best thing you can do is end up at home with a bar of chocolate, a box of pralines, a box of chocolates,” he said.

Belgium is proud of its chocolate mastery, more than a century after Jean Neuhaus invented the hard-shelled, cream-filled chocolate, the praline, in 1912. But it faces competition from foreign producers from Canada to Malaysia who market their produce as “Belgian style” or from a “Belgian recipe”.