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List Of Chocolatiers
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. Chocolatiers *Michel Allex * Louis Barnett *Anthon Berg * Fran Bigelow *John Cadbury * Pascal Caffet * Thomas Caffrey *François-Louis Cailler * María Fernanda Di Giacobbe *Gilbert Ganong * Jacques Genin *Domingo Ghirardelli * Mott Green * Harry Specters *Milton S. Hershey *Jean-Paul Hévin * Ernest Hillier *Coenraad Johannes van Houten *Hans Imhoff * JaCiva's Bakery and Chocolatier, Portland, Oregon *Andreas Jacobs *Klaus Johann Jacobs *Leonidas Kestekides * Fritz Knipschildt *Charles-Amédée Kohler *Emeril Lagasse * Norman Love *Franklin Clarence Mars *Menier family *Antoine Brutus Menier * Émile-Justin Menier *Daniel Peter *H.B. Reese *Robert Steinberg *Philippe Suchard *Joseph William Thornton * Paul A. Young * Herman Wockenfuss See also * Candy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton S
Milton may refer to: Names * Milton (surname), a surname (and list of people with that surname) ** John Milton (1608–1674), English poet * Milton (given name) ** Milton Friedman (1912–2006), Nobel laureate in Economics, author of '' Free to Choose'' Places Australia * Milton, New South Wales * Milton, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane ** Milton Courts, a tennis centre ** Milton House, Milton, a heritage-listed house ** Milton railway station, Brisbane ** Milton Reach, a reach of the Brisbane River ** Milton Road, an arterial road in Brisbane Canada * Milton, Newfoundland and Labrador * Milton, Nova Scotia in the Region of Queens Municipality * Milton, Ontario ** Milton line, a commuter train line ** Milton GO Station * Milton (electoral district), Ontario ** Milton (provincial electoral district), Ontario * Beaverton, Ontario a community in Durham Region and renamed as Beaverton in 1835 * Rural Municipality of Milton No. 292, Saskatchewan New Zealand * Milton, N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domingo Ghirardelli
Domenico "Domingo" Ghirardelli (; February 21, 1817 – January 17, 1894) was an Italian-born chocolatier who was the founder of the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company in San Francisco, California. Biography Early life Domenico Ghirardelli was born on February 21, 1817, in Rapallo, Italy, to Giuseppe and Maddalena ( Ferretto) Ghirardelli. His father was a spice merchant in Genoa. In his teens, he apprenticed at Romanengo, a noted chocolatier in Genoa. At about the age of twenty, in 1838, he moved to Uruguay, then in 1838 to Lima, Lima, Peru, where he established a confectionery, and began using the Spanish language, Spanish equivalent of his Italian language, Italian name, Domingo. In 1849 he moved to California on the recommendation of his former neighbor, James Lick, who had brought 600 pounds of chocolate with him to San Francisco, California, San Francisco in 1848. Caught up in the California Gold Rush, he opened his first store in a mining camp to sell sweets and treats to min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emeril Lagasse
Emeril John Lagassé III ( ; born October 15, 1959) is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, television personality, cookbook author, and National Best Recipe award winner for his "Turkey and Hot Sausage Chili" recipe in 2003. He is a regional James Beard Award winner, known for his mastery of Creole and Cajun cuisine and his self-developed "New New Orleans" style. He is of Portuguese descent on his mother’s side, while being of French heritage through his father. He has appeared on a wide variety of cooking TV shows, including the long running Food Network shows ''Emeril Live'' and ''Essence of Emeril'', and is associated with several catchphrases, including "Kick it up a notch!" and "Bam!" Lagasse's portfolio of media, products, and restaurants generates an estimated US$150 million annually in revenue. Early life Emeril John Lagasse III was born on October 15, 1959, in Fall River, Massachusetts, to a French-Canadian family from Quebec. His parents are Emeril John Laga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles-Amédée Kohler
Charles-Amédée Kohler (born Charles-Gottlieb Kohler; 15 June 1790 – 15 September 1874) was a Swiss chocolatier and entrepreneur who founded Chocolat Kohler. He notably invented hazelnut chocolate, in his factory opened in 1830 in Lausanne. After his death the Kohler company continued in the Swiss chocolate industry. It merged in 1904 with the Daniel Peter, Peter and in 1911 with the Cailler chocolate brands; before being finally purchased by Nestlé in 1929. Biography Kohler was born on 15 June 1790 in Lausanne, to Gottlieb (later known by the gallicized version of his name, Amédée) Kohler, a merchant of colonial goods and wine from Büren an der Aare, and Anne Ernst. While still young he joined his father's business that operated in the city since 1793, and in 1817 formed a partnership with his brother, Frédéric, and father to form the wholesale firm ''Amédée Kohler et Fils'' (Amédée Kohler & Sons). In 1830 he bought a mill in downtown Lausanne and established a ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Knipschildt
Fritz Knipschildt is a Danish chef and chocolatier. Early life and education Born and raised in Odense, Denmark, Knipschildt began at the age of 13, working in a local restaurant as a dishwasher. He quickly advanced and before he had attended culinary school, Knipschildt was put in charge of the bistro kitchen of a new restaurant in the north of Copenhagen. After training at the Hotel and Restaurant School of Denmark, Knipschildt worked in the Mont Blanc area of France twice, and also in southern Spain. A few years later, he was able to move to the United States and worked as a private chef, after which he was sponsored by a French restaurant in New York City. Career In 1999, he began making chocolates out of his small one-bedroom apartment, selling them to local retailers. Soon afterward he began supplying his chocolates to larger retailers such as Dean & Deluca and Martha Stewart Martha Helen Stewart (, ; born August 3, 1941) is an American retail businesswoman, writer, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonidas Kestekides
Leonidas Kestekides (1876 - 1948) was an Ottoman empire-born Belgian chocolate manufacturer, founder of the internationally famous Leonidas company in Belgium. The company's primary focus is pralines (chocolate shells with soft fillings), but they also sell marzipan, solid chocolates, and other confectionery. Life Leonidas Kestekides was born to Cappadocian Greek parents in Nigde, Cappadocia (now in Turkey) in 1876. Accounts of his early years vary, but it appears that he left Constantinople (now Istanbul), lived in Greece for a while and then went to Italy, where he became a wine merchant. He struggled financially, so he decided to move to New York City, where he worked as a confectioner from 1893 to 1898, then moved to Paris until 1908. In 1910, he travelled to Belgium to attend the 1910 World Fair in Brussels, where he was awarded the bronze medal for his chocolate confectionery. He returned to Belgium in 1913, attended the World Fair in Ghent, and moved permanently to B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Johann Jacobs
Klaus Johann Jacobs (3 December 1936 – 11 September 2008) was a German-born billionaire in the coffee and chocolate industry, with Swiss citizenship. Biography Early life an education He was born on 3 December 1936 in Bremen, Germany. Jacobs attended the University of Hamburg and later Stanford University. Career He started his career in the global coffee and chocolates industries. * In 1962, he became Director of Purchasing and Marketing for the Jacobs AG coffee business. * In 1972 he became General Manager of the company. * In 1982, the company merged with Interfood to create Jacobs Suchard AG, Europe's number one chocolate and coffee business. * In 1987, Jacobs expanded his business in North America with acquisition of Brach's. * In 1990, when most of the consumer-oriented elements of Jacobs Suchard were sold to Philip Morris, Jacobs created with Brach's and non-consumer businesses of Jacobs Suchard a company which is now known as Barry Callebaut. Barry Callebaut i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Jacobs
Dr. W. Andreas Jacobs (born October 1963) is a Bremen-born entrepreneur who lives in Germany and is a German national. Biography Andreas Jacobs (1963) studied law at the Universities of Freiburg im Breisgau, Munich and Montpellier and subsequently obtained a postgraduate degree in European competition law (Dr. iur.) from the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. Afterwards he obtained an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. From 1991, Andreas Jacobs worked three years as a consultant and project manager at The Boston Consulting Group in Munich. Since 1992, Andreas Jacobs has been an independent entrepreneur with a stake in several companies plus minority interests in several other companies. Since 2000, Andreas Jacobs has been responsible for the family business in Switzerland. As from 2003, Andreas Jacobs served on the board of Barry Callebaut AG, where he was chairman from 2005 to 2016. He was executive chairman of Jacobs Holding Jacobs Holding AG is an investment firm b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JaCiva's Bakery And Chocolatier
JaCiva's Bakery and Chocolatier is a bakery and chocolate shop in Portland, Oregon. Description JaCiva's is a bakery and chocolate shop on Hawthorne Boulevard in southeast Portland's Sunnyside neighborhood. The shop has a small private event space and a dessert house called After Dark, which specializes in chocolates, cakes, and tortes. JaCiva's offers pastries, cheesecake, coffee cake, truffles, and other "interestingly shaped" chocolates. History Jack and Iva Elmer co-founded the bakery in December 1986. The couple's daughters operated the business after Jack suffered a stroke in 1990. Iva helped coordinate the temporary installation of American flags along Hawthorne Boulevard at certain times of the year. Jack died in 2014 at the age of 75. One of his surviving daughters wrote, "He was loved and will be missed greatly." During the COVID-19 pandemic, the business had a take-out window and drive-through operation. Face masks were required even after Oregon's mandate ende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Imhoff
Hans Imhoff (March 12, 1922 – December 21, 2007) was a German chocolate producer and founder of the Imhoff-Schokoladenmuseum (Imhoff Chocolate Museum) in Cologne, Germany.Official Website of the Imhoff-Schokoladenmuseum Cologne Imhoff was born in Cologne to Franz and Charotte Imhoff (née Gallé). After leaving Elementary School he then joined a Trade School, where he trained in Commercial and Vocational Studies. Imhoff founded a chocolate and sugar factory after World War II where he produced non-branded chocolates, which became very successful. In 1969 he took over the ''Hildebrand'' chocolate company in Berlin – Germany's oldest chocolate manufacturer - who held the chocolate brand " Scho- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coenraad Johannes Van Houten
Coenraad Johannes van Houten (15 March 1801 – 27 May 1887) was a Dutch chemist and chocolate maker known for the treatment of cocoa mass with alkaline salts to remove the bitter taste and make cocoa solids more water-soluble; the resulting product is still called "Dutch process chocolate". He is also credited with introducing a method for pressing the fat (cocoa butter) from roasted cocoa beans, though this was in fact his father, Casparus van Houten's invention. Father and son van Houten Coenraad Johannes van Houten was the son of Casparus van Houten (1770–1858) and Arnoldina Koster. His father opened a chocolate factory in Amsterdam in 1815, with a mill turned by laborers. At that time, cocoa beans were ground into a fine mass, which could then be mixed with milk to create a chocolate drink or, with addition of sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla, made into cookies. Cocoa press In 1828, Casparus van Houten Sr. (and not his son, who is usually credited) patented an inexpensive m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Hillier Chocolates
Ernest Hillier Chocolates is an Australian chocolatier. Founded in 1914, it is Australia's first chocolate manufacturer, and its oldest privately owned chocolatier is still in operation. The company is headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria, and produces over six hundred chocolate products. History Ernest Hillier moved from England to San Francisco, California, United States, in the early 1900s to learn the confectionery and soda trade. There, he and his Australian-born wife, Magdalen May, opened several restaurants; however, the majority of their establishments were destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The Hilliers subsequently moved to Sydney, Australia, in 1906, where Hillier began a sequence of Australian firsts. In 1911, he opened the first soda fountain in Australia, "Hillier Refreshment Services", at the Imperial Skating Rink. Because of the success of the soda fountain, Hillier was put in charge of catering at the amusement park at Rushcutters Bay, New South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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