Chocolate Isn’t Snobby — It Just Wants Your Attention 🍫 I used to think chocolate was only for pastry chefs and culinary alchemists. With all the fermenting, tempering, blooming — it sounded like a spellbook more than a recipe. But here’s what I’ve learned: chocolate doesn’t demand perfection. It simply...

Food of the Gods – Once Upon a Chocolate!  There’s a reason chocolate feels like pure magic when it melts on your tongue — its story is as rich as its taste. Over 3,000 years ago, ancient civilizations like the Olmecs, Mayans, and Aztecs worshipped Theobroma cacao — literally meaning...

Part 3 With cocoa mass in hand, the manufacturers can now decide if the chocolate they want is going to be couverture or compound. If the manufacturer decides on producing couverture chocolates, then, in the next step, he adds cocoa butter. This is the same ingredient which gives the consumer...

Part 2 When cocoa beans land in different parts of the world, chocolate manufacturers get to work. The beans are sorted and graded. And the processing work begins. Cocoa beans are roasted , alkalised and grounded to the desired consistency. Once this is done, the beans now turn to what...

Part 1 What is couverture chocolate ?Nowadays, we have heard brands talking about couverture chocolate. But as a consumer, what does this mean?Well, for this we need to go back to the roots , quite literally. Need to go back to see where chocolate comes from.Chocolate comes from a fruit...

  “We wanted to create a world class Indian brand that is on par with international standards”- Anusha A Chowdaiah, Founder & CEO of Linoui Chocolates. Anusha A Chowdaiah is the Founder & CEO of Linoui– a premium chocolaterie brand that aims to bring the authentic and luxury couverture chocolate...