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“Training and consultation from Nitin at Cocoashala was instrumental in kickstarting Paul And Mike in quick time. In addition to chocolate making, his insights about the Indian consumer were critical to create the right product portfolio” Vikas Temani—Business Head, Paul & Mike Craft Chocolates.

“In the first workshop on chocolate making, I learnt about the process followed by chocolatiers. The second workshop was a step forward to getting the fermentation right, identifying the right flavours in the cacao, etc.,”Akhil Grandhi, Bon Fiction Bean to Bar Chocolates.

Harish Manoj Kumar and Karthik Palanisamy of Soklet took samples to Chennai-based L Nitin Chordia, India’s first certified chocolate taster, and asked him to give them a try. “If he wasn’t going to like them, both the idea and the chocolate were going to be binned,” said Palanisamy. But Chordia liked what they’d done and that led to birth of bean-to-bar brand Soklet.

Karthikeyan Palanisamy, Co-Founder, Soklet Tree to Bar Chocolate, India.